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Transgress the Mind

Sorcery1 generic manaBlack mana

Black's discard family has always been defined by where it cuts the cord. Duress takes noncreatures, Despise takes threats, Inquisition of Kozilek sweeps everything cheap. This one flips Inquisition's window on its head: rather than stripping the early curve, it reaches only for mana value 3 or greater, taking the payoff a player was holding instead of the spell they would cast next turn. That makes it a surgical answer to expensive decks and a badly positioned one against the fast, low-curve hands the rest of black's discard was built to unravel. Exiling rather than discarding is what makes it bite against graveyard-reliant strategies, where a card sent to the yard is only half gone; here there is no flashback or recursion to chase it back. The devoid frame reads as flavor rather than function: the Black mana in the cost keeps the card's color identity black, so the no-color treatment changes only what tallies it as colorless, never where it can be cast. Since it is a sorcery and not a permanent, the only shells that treat that colorlessness as a bonus are those counting colorless cards or spells. Strip away the Eldrazi gloss and what remains is targeted hand attack pointed at the top half of the curve, a deliberate mirror image of the bottom-half attackers that came before it.

Transgress the Mind (bfz)
BFZ · #101uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.06
Foil: $0.43
Oracle Text

Rules text

Devoid (This card has no color.) Target player reveals their hand. You choose a card from it with mana value 3 or greater and exile that card.
Legalities

Format Status

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