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Treacherous Urge

Instant4 generic manaBlack mana

Threaten effects steal a creature you already see across the table; this one reaches into a hand and pulls a creature that has not been cast yet, before its owner ever gets to use it. That distinction is the whole design. Instead of borrowing the biggest body in play and swinging it back at its controller, you reveal the opponent's hand, take the best uncast threat, and run it for a turn with haste before it is sacrificed and the lease expires. The effect is a hybrid: part Duress-style hand reveal, part one-turn animation of a card that should have been a future play. It punishes a hand that is sandbagging a finisher, since the reward scales with what the opponent is holding rather than what they have committed. The cost of doing this at instant speed is the five mana and the strict one-turn lease: the creature leaves regardless, so the upside is a single attack, a single activated ability, or a sacrifice you control rather than permanent possession. It belongs to the era when black began borrowing from the cards opponents had not yet revealed, treating the hidden hand as a resource to be raided rather than merely stripped.

Treacherous Urge (plc)
PLC · #82uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.27
Foil: $4.25
Oracle Text

Rules text

Target opponent reveals their hand. You may put a creature card from it onto the battlefield under your control. That creature gains haste. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
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
Legal
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
N/A
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