Rag Man

Targeted discard that bypasses the central problem with random discard: it never wastes itself on lands. By forcing the opponent to reveal their hand and then strip a creature card specifically, this is a hand-attack effect aimed at the threats, not the chaff, and in an era when creatures carried the bulk of a deck's clock that distinction mattered. The cost structure is where the design discipline lives. Three black mana and a tap is a steep activation for a body this fragile, a 2/1 that dies to almost anything and can only fire on your own turn, so the engine depends on keeping a creature alive that telegraphs exactly what it does the moment it survives a turn. The "during your turn" clause closes the window that would have made it oppressive: you cannot leave it up as a reactive tax, you cannot strip a topdecked threat the instant it appears, you can only grind on your own time. What it represents is an early answer to a question the game kept asking, how to attack a hand without the variance of true random discard, and the answer here is to make the randomness selective. The opponent still chooses nothing; the card chooses for them, but only from the pile that matters. It is hand disruption built for the long grind, and the awkward body is the price of that precision.