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Shocker

Creature — Insect1 generic manaRed mana

A wheel effect bolted to a 1/1 body, and the design is stranger than the rate suggests: the trigger forces a player to discard their entire hand and draw that many cards, so it cycles their hand only if the connection lands. The hook is that the symmetry is broken in a way most wheel cards are not. Classic wheels like Timetwister or Windfall refill everyone, including their controller, which is why they tend to live in storm-adjacent shells that can capitalize on the redraw. This refills the defender, the one player who almost never wants help, and gives the attacker nothing but the satisfaction of disrupting a held grip. That makes it a closer's tool rather than an engine piece: you point it at the opponent who has been sitting on counterspells or a saved bomb, swing in for a single point of combat damage, and scatter whatever they were holding. The reward scales with their hesitation, not your investment. It is a quintessentially Tempest-era piece of red disruption, where the color's identity leaned hard into denying opponents their plans rather than rewarding the caster, and where a fragile body carrying an asymmetric effect was a deliberate balancing lever rather than an oversight.

Shocker (tmp)
TMP · #204rare
Pricing
Normal: $1.03
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Whenever this creature deals damage to a player, that player discards all the cards in their hand, then draws that many cards.
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
Legal
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

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