Sin Collector
Tidehollow Sculler and Mesmeric Fiend strip whatever you fear most; this Cleric knows exactly what it's afraid of. The body is a precision tool, not a generalist: it ignores creatures, artifacts, planeswalkers, and lands entirely, reaching only for an instant or sorcery in an opponent's hand and exiling it for good. That narrowness is the whole point. Where broader Thoughtseize-style hand attackers ask you to evaluate a revealed hand on the fly, this one declares its prey in advance, which makes it a heat-seeking answer to combo and control: counterspells, sweepers, removal that would break up your board, the burn spell waiting to close out a race. The exile clause matters more than it looks, since it puts the card past graveyard recursion rather than merely delaying it a turn. The cost of that focus is a fragile 2/1 that trades its survival for a single moment of disruption and contributes little once the trigger resolves; against a hand holding no instants or sorceries, it reveals the opponent's plan and then offers nothing but a 2/1 to block with. It is built for a specific job (stripping the interaction that gates a plan from going off) and it does that job cleanly, which is why it has stayed relevant in the fair white-black midrange decks that want their threats to resolve unmolested.





