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Mindclaw Shaman

Creature — Lizard Shaman4 generic manaRed mana

Stealing a spell off the top of your opponent's hand is a fantasy older than most of the players chasing it, and the design delivers it about as bluntly as it can be delivered: reveal, reach in, cast for free. The catch lives in the timing. A 2/2 body that only fires when it enters, and it casts at whatever speed the entry resolves, which in practice means sorcery speed, since you are tapping out on your own turn to play a creature. So the spell you snatch is the one your opponent is holding for their turn, not the one they would have answered yours with. You see the whole hand and choose, so the upside scales with how loaded the opponent is, and craters when they are empty or holding only creatures and lands. It is a coin that lands face-up against a control deck and face-down against aggro, which is exactly the texture of a design built to punish a hand full of reactive spells. The body is almost incidental, a chassis to hang the trigger on; the real machine is a one-shot theft engine wearing a creature's clothes, asking you to trade tempo and a vulnerable blocker for a card you never paid to draw and may never have wanted in the first place.

Mindclaw Shaman (m13)
M13 · #142uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.30
Foil: $3.72
Oracle Text

Rules text

When this creature enters, target opponent reveals their hand. You may cast an instant or sorcery spell from among those cards without paying its mana cost.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
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
N/A
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