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Mind Grind

SorceryX generic manaBlue manaBlack mana

The mill that scales with land density rather than a flat number, which is the entire reason it behaves so differently from a fixed effect. Most library-attack cards bury a set quantity; this one digs until it has dumped X land cards from each opponent, so the actual count lost depends on how lean a deck runs. Against a spell-heavy deck running few lands, a moderate X tears deep, chewing through huge swaths to find its land count; against a land-dense manabase it hits those lands quickly and mills proportionally less. That variance, where the same X empties wildly different amounts from one opponent to the next depending on their curve, is the part of the design that does the real work. The X-spell shell means it wants to be cast late, dumped for everything you have left, and it rewards patience the way most overload-style finishers do: a small X is a polite nibble, a large X is a deck-erasing haymaker. The clause "X can't be 0" closes the obvious loophole of a free no-op, forcing every cast to commit at least one land's worth of milling and the mana that buys it. As a payoff it sits in an awkward spot: too slow to function as disruption, too dependent on the late game to race, but genuinely terrifying as a one-shot win condition when you have ten or twelve mana and a library to empty in a single resolution.

Mind Grind (gtc)
GTC · #178rare
Pricing
Normal: $4.09
Foil: $8.53
Oracle Text

Rules text

Each opponent reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal X land cards, then puts all cards revealed this way into their graveyard. X can't be 0.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
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
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
Legal
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