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Silverquill Silencer

Creature — Human ClericWhite manaBlack mana

The gamble here is naming a card sight unseen and betting your opponent has to cast it. That is a reads-dependent tax: a Meddling Mage that lets the spell resolve but punishes the caster with a three-life hit and a card for you. Meddling Mage and its descendants ask you to name a threat and shut it off outright, which is clean but binary; this design instead prices the named spell, turning the naming decision into an ongoing damage-and-draw engine rather than a lock. That shifts what you name. Against a deck leaning on a four-of key card, you name it and every subsequent cast bleeds them; against a spread-out list you might whiff entirely, and the body is all you have. The effect keys off the caster losing life and you drawing, so it scales with repetition: the more times they cast the named card, the worse their position gets on both axes. It is a punisher that rewards knowing the field, not a hard answer, and the aggressive white-black stat line means the naming ability is close to upside on a creature that was already going to attack. When the read is right, the card overperforms; when it is wrong, you have paid full price for a beater and gotten a name you will never collect on.

Silverquill Silencer (pstx)
PSTX · #234prare
Pricing
Normal: $0.27
Foil: $0.36
Oracle Text

Rules text

As this creature enters, choose a nonland card name. Whenever an opponent casts a spell with the chosen name, they lose 3 life and you draw a card.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

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