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Leshrac's Sigil

EnchantmentBlack manaBlack mana

Black got plenty of discard in this period, but almost all of it was random: pitch a card at random, hope it was the one that mattered. This flips that bargain entirely. Every green spell an opponent casts opens a window to spend two black mana, peek at their hand, and pull out the exact card you least want them to have. That is targeted discard stapled to a trigger, and it punishes the green mage twice: once for the spell already on the stack, once for the resource you yank out from under the follow-up. The bounce clause is self-preservation. A permanent that exists only to harass green sits exposed to Disenchant-style answers, so returning it to hand in response to removal lets you save the card and redeploy when a green opponent surfaces again. None of it matters against a deck without green: the trigger never fires, and the bounce only shuffles a dead card between zones for two mana. As color-pie policing it belongs in a museum: the game retired the practice of printing permanents whose only purpose was to wreck one color's plan, and the single-color hosers built as enchantments went with it. What outlasted the format it was made for is the principle black still trades on, that seeing a hand and choosing what leaves it beats rolling the dice on a random pitch.

Leshrac's Sigil (ice)
ICE · #144uncommon
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Whenever an opponent casts a green spell, you may pay Black manaBlack mana. If you do, look at that player's hand and choose a card from it. The player discards that card. Black manaBlack mana: Return this enchantment to its owner's hand.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
N/A
Historic
N/A
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
N/A
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
Legal
PreDH
Legal
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
Legal
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