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Skull Raid

Sorcery3 generic manaBlack mana

Discard spells have always fought the same losing battle against tempo: strip a full grip and they are backbreaking, but draw them a turn too late and they strand you, poking at an opponent who has already emptied out. The self-correcting clause folds those two outcomes into one line. Fire it into a stocked hand and it plays as a Mind Rot, forcing two cards from the opponent's own choosing; fire it into a threadbare one and it converts the shortfall into cards for you, so the sorcery has a job to do no matter how much the opponent is holding. Foretell tightens the sequencing: you can bank it early, pay the reduced cost later, and hide its identity behind a face-down card until you commit, which keeps the opponent guessing about whether the exiled card is removal, a counter, or this. The design is smoothing the variance that has always defined hand attack. Rather than a spell that lurches between blowout and dead draw depending on when it lands, you get one that returns something on either side of that spectrum. It will not out-disrupt the sharpest one-mana strippers, and it will not out-value a spell built purely to refill, but it declines to be a blank, and for a color that lives on both disruption and card flow, that dependability is the whole appeal.

Skull Raid (plst)
PLST · #KHM-111common
Pricing
Normal: $0.15
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Target opponent discards two cards. If fewer than two cards were discarded this way, you draw cards equal to the difference. Foretell 1 generic manaBlack mana (During your turn, you may pay 2 generic mana and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
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
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
Printings elsewhere

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