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Scandalmonger

Creature — Boar Monger3 generic manaBlack mana

Discard usually belongs to whoever cast the spell: you pay, you point, your opponent loses a card. This boar hands that lever to the whole room. Anybody can pay the two mana to make any player throw away a card, the controller included, themselves included, so the wheel turns by communal agreement rather than private aggression. The 3/3 body is almost incidental; the real object is a shared engine that nobody fully owns, and the haggling over who pays and who gets pointed at becomes the card's actual game. The sorcery-speed clamp is what stops the engine from becoming an ambush: you cannot hold up the ability and strip an opponent's freshly drawn answer at the last instant, because the discard only fires on an empty stack during a main phase, in plain view. That timing pushes the card toward open negotiation and away from the gotcha. Its lineage runs through an early-era economy of activated abilities you could rent rather than own, a rental sensibility that rarely surfaced this cleanly. Read at the oracle level, it is a small experiment in untethering an ability from a single controller, asking what a board looks like when the discard engine answers to everyone present instead of to one player.

Scandalmonger (mmq)
MMQ · #158uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.28
Foil: $2.75
Oracle Text

Rules text

2 generic mana: Target player discards a card. Any player may activate this ability but only as a sorcery.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
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
Legal
PreDH
Legal
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
N/A
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