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The Torment of Gollum

Sorcery3 generic manaBlack mana

Coercion with a rider is a familiar shape: black has been paying a little extra to turn Duress into targeted discard where you pick the card since the earliest sets. What distinguishes this one is the second clause, which spends the same card on board presence rather than a second point of information. Amass lets targeted discard double as a creature investment, so the turn you strip the best nonland card from an opponent's hand you also leave two +1/+1 counters on an Army, growing a token you may not have had before. That pairing is rare: disruption and development usually compete for the same mana, and stapling them together means neither half comes out premium. The discard is unconditional and hits any nonland card, which keeps it live against control and combo, but at four mana the body it builds is modest and the Orc typing only matters where an Orc payoff exists. The design logic is aggro-attrition: a deck that wants to punch through a defensive hand while still committing to the board, trading raw efficiency for the ability to do two jobs on one card. And it answers the classic weakness of hand disruption, that a topdecked answer refills whatever you took, by leaving something behind on the battlefield that a fresh draw cannot undo.

The Torment of Gollum (ltr)
LTR · #110common
Pricing
Normal: $0.19
Foil: $0.26
Oracle Text

Rules text

Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player discards that card. Amass Orcs 2. (Put two +1/+1 counters on an Army you control. It's also an Orc. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Orc Army creature token first.)
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
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
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
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