Lost Legacy
The lineage of naming a card and stripping it from every zone runs back to Lobotomy, but this design softens the blow with a consolation clause: each card pulled from the opponent's hand becomes a fresh draw for them. That trade-back is the whole strategic calculus. Hitting a combo piece still buried in the library or graveyard is pure profit, a clean extraction with no replacement offered. But naming something they are already clutching swaps a known threat for an unknown one and refills them card-for-card, which is why the spell wants to be pointed at decks built around a single irreplaceable name rather than deployed as generic hand disruption. The nonartifact, nonland restriction is the cost of admission: it cannot dismantle an artifact engine or gut a mana base, so it lives or dies on the prevalence of must-have spells and creatures. As preemptive interaction it sits in an awkward middle ground, too narrow to be a reliable Thoughtseize substitute and too expensive to fire proactively, yet devastating when the format coalesces around a named centerpiece. It is the surgical strike that only works when you already know exactly what to cut.
