Pilfer

Targeted discard has always been priced at the low end, and the whole negotiation is what you surrender for the extraction. The one-mana specialists each buy their cheapness with a restriction: Thoughtseize charges two life for unrestricted reach, Duress can only touch noncreatures, Inquisition of Kozilek caps the mana value it can strip. Here there is no such wall. You see the full hand, choose any nonland card, and take it clean: no life paid, no card-type fence, no mana-value ceiling. What you pay instead is simply the extra mana, one more than the format's benchmark stripping spells, and that is the entire tax. That makes this the plainest possible statement of the effect, a proactive black deck's way of pulling the answer or the clock before it can be cast, with the tempo cost front-loaded into the second mana rather than hidden in a clause. The nonland limit is the only meaningful seam: against a grip that is all lands and a single spell you cannot attack the mana, and against a flooded hand you are forced onto whatever spell remains rather than the topdeck fixer you would rather see gone. The sorcery speed is the other constraint, and a real one: you commit on your own turn, blind to the next draw, spending your window before the opponent's opens instead of waiting to react to what they hold.