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Lightstall Inquisitor

Creature — Angel WizardWhite mana

The tension in every hand-disruption spell is what happens to the card you take: peel it to the graveyard and you have traded one-for-one; hold it and you risk symmetry. This one-drop resolves that tension by threatening the card rather than removing it. Each opponent chooses what to exile, and gets to play it back at a tax, so the disruption is soft: you are not stripping a resource, you are making it more expensive and later than it wanted to be. That framing is the whole design. A land they exile enters tapped, so it costs them a turn of tempo; a spell they exile costs an extra generic, so it costs them a full mana or a delayed curve. The white-weenie shell that wants a 2/1 with vigilance is exactly the deck that wants to tax an opponent's development while attacking and holding back a blocker. The choice living with the opponent is what keeps the effect from being a strict hand-rip, and it is also what makes it a clean, low-friction inclusion: no information asymmetry to adjudicate, no dead card if they are hellbent, just a small tempo bite stapled to an aggressive body. It reads as disruption but plays as a tax, and the distinction is the point.

Lightstall Inquisitor (peoe)
PEOE · #24srare
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Vigilance When this creature enters, each opponent exiles a card from their hand and may play that card for as long as it remains exiled. Each spell cast this way costs 1 generic mana more to cast. Each land played this way enters tapped.
Legalities

Format Status

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