Sadistic Hypnotist

Discard as a sacrifice payoff: that is the trade this card was built to enable, in an era obsessed with the graveyard. The strategy wanted creatures dying and cards piling up in the yard, and this converts one into the other: every creature you feed it strips two cards from an opponent's hand, turning a board you no longer need into a hand they no longer have. The sorcery-speed restriction is the constraint that prices the effect: the ability has to fire on your own main phase, with the stack empty, so it can never sacrifice a blocker mid-combat or save a creature from a kill spell. What separates it from Hymn to Tourach or Mind Rot is the resource it spends. The cost is no mana and no tap, only a creature, so on a single turn you can activate it three or four times, empty a hand, and still cast a full curve of spells around it. The limiter is not mana but raw fodder: how many creatures you can afford to lose. Tokens, freshly resolved attackers, expendable mana producers all become two more cards in the bin. It is the discard outlet that treats attrition as a grind rather than a single haymaker, asking you to spend your own creatures as ammunition and to keep refilling the supply.