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CardName: Sinister Secrets Cost: 3BB Type: Sorcery Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: Choose three target creatures, destroy two of those creatures of your choice. The controller of the third creature draws a card. Flavour Text: Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead. - _Benjamin Franklin_ Set/Rarity: Snap Uncommon

Sinister Secrets
{3}{b}{b}
 
 U 
Sorcery
Choose three target creatures, destroy two of those creatures of your choice. The controller of the third creature draws a card.
Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead. – Benjamin Franklin
Updated on 14 Nov 2017 by Camruth

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2011-09-28 05:57:47: Camruth created the card Sinister Secrets
2011-09-28 05:58:08: Camruth edited Sinister Secrets

For (((Challenge # 015)))

Sweet! Nice representation of a classic quote.

Yowsers. This'll normally be "Destroy two target creatures. Draw a card." Which is some hideous combination of Dead Ringers and Annihilate. I might prefer it if there was some other means for determining which of the three survives... perhaps the one with the highest power, or a random one, or something. Though that'd make this more of a red card...

it is interesting because you have to have 3 targets.
Ideally you will target 2 of your opponent's creatures and one of yours and destroy the opponent's creatures netting you a card.
HOWEVER...sometimes you may not have any creatures but your opponent has a threat or two you need to deal with so you will have to let him draw a card out of it.

And it's a risk to play it on two opposing creatures and one of yours -- if your opponent has Altar's Reap or other instant-speed sac, I think they can leave you destroying you creature and not drawing a card (?)

Hmmm. No, I think this would be like Leeching Bite: you announce what you're doing to the targets as you choose them.

2012-03-31 23:59:54: Camruth edited Sinister Secrets
2012-04-02 06:57:28: Camruth edited Sinister Secrets

I think I like this at its original casting cost - it is a subtle reference to the quote - {3} may keep a secret if {b}{b} are dead - lol

Wow. That is some subtle stuff going on there. No one would figure it out until it got highlighted in a 'Card of the Day'. :)

yeah I only noticed it myself when I wrote that post something like what 6 months later ??? LOL

This works more like Cannibalize: the decisions on what to do with the creatures aren't made until resolution, and the destruction has to be dealt with first.

2017-11-14 02:07:52: Camruth moved the card Sinister Secrets from Multiverse Design Challenge into Snap

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