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Skullcap Snail

Creature — Fungus Snail1 generic manaBlack mana

The trouble with hand disruption on a body has always been the trade: a discard spell that also attacks costs more than the discard alone, and the creature you get is usually too small to matter. This one splits that difference by handing the choice to the opponent. Instead of forcing a specific card out of their hand the way a targeted discard spell does, it makes them exile a card of their choosing, which means they shed the least useful thing they hold rather than the piece you actually wanted gone. That is a real concession from the caster's side, and it is what pays for stapling the effect to a creature that can also chip in for damage. The exile clause is the sharper detail: cards pulled this way do not land in the graveyard, so an opponent leaning on flashback, escape, or delve gets nothing back to reuse. Against decks that mine their own bin for a second round of value, exile disruption reads very differently from ordinary discard, even when the opponent picks the card. The body is small enough that the card lives or dies on the enters trigger, but the trigger is stackable in a way a one-shot spell is not: any means of blinking or recurring it turns a single card of disruption into a recurring tax on the opponent's hand.

Skullcap Snail (lci)
LCI · #119common
Pricing
Normal: $0.17
Foil: $0.27
Oracle Text

Rules text

When this creature enters, target opponent exiles a card from their hand.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
Legal
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
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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