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Psychic Surgery

Enchantment1 generic manaBlue mana

The trigger is the whole problem. Most library manipulation cares about your own deck; this one reaches across the table, but only at the precise moment an opponent shuffles. That keys the card to fetchlands and library-searching tutors, the decks that crack and shuffle every turn, while a deck that simply draws and casts never offers you a single trigger. It is a hate card wearing an enchantment's clothes: dead against the archetypes that shuffle least, slowly grinding against the ones that shuffle most. The strategic work splits two ways. Exiling one of the top two pulls a card out of the game entirely, and done three or four times against a fetch-heavy deck that quietly strips their best draws one at a time, an attrition that compounds the longer the game runs. But even when nothing is worth exiling, the remainder goes back "in any order," so you can still bury the better of the two cards under the worse one: a smaller denial, but a free one, applied every time they crack a fetch. The design lives in an awkward corner: effects keyed to shuffle frequency scale entirely with the opponent's manabase and tutor density, so the same card is inert against one table and suffocating against another, with very little ground in between.

Psychic Surgery (nph)
NPH · #44rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.48
Foil: $3.49
Oracle Text

Rules text

Whenever an opponent shuffles their library, you may look at the top two cards of that library. You may exile one of those cards. Then put the rest on top of that library in any order.
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
Legal
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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