CardName: Brink of Madness
Cost: 2BB
Type: Enchantment
Pow/Tgh: /
Rules Text: At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have no cards in
hand, sacrifice Brink of Madness and target opponent
discards his or her hand.
Flavour Text: “I searched for form and land; for years and years I roamed.
I gazed a gazely stare at all the millions here. We must
have died alone a long, long time ago.”
-David Bowie
Set/Rarity: Magic 20XX Rare
Brink of Madness
R
Enchantment
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have no cards in hand, sacrifice Brink of Madness and target opponent discards his or her hand.
“I searched for form and land; for years and years I roamed. I gazed a gazely stare at all the millions here. We must have died alone a long, long time ago.”
-David Bowie
Reprint of Brink of Madness. If I'm going to go hellbent, why don't you go hellbent, too? Brink of Madness, honestly, might be too good. I don't know. At the time, I must have thought that this would be an excellent card for draft, since dropping to zero cards, even in a hellbent set, would take time. In Modern, however, you could get this effect to go off on upkeep 3. You might even have something else on the battlefield. ;)
The flavor text was me being a bit silly. On a few real Magic cards, I put in new artwork to throw players, in an attempt to work against their built in expectation that "Cards with Magic-like art are probably real reprints, and therefore 'safe'". The artwork for this card was David Bowie as the Goblin King inside one of those rooms with stairs leading in impossible directions. So, since people really liked that, I gave the card appropriate David Bowie flavor text. I continued the tradition in Magic 20XD6 with The Doors on the reprinted Breakthrough (though, I didn't attribute it there. I wondered if anyone would pick up on it.)
Reprint of Brink of Madness. If I'm going to go hellbent, why don't you go hellbent, too? Brink of Madness, honestly, might be too good. I don't know. At the time, I must have thought that this would be an excellent card for draft, since dropping to zero cards, even in a hellbent set, would take time. In Modern, however, you could get this effect to go off on upkeep 3. You might even have something else on the battlefield. ;)
The flavor text was me being a bit silly. On a few real Magic cards, I put in new artwork to throw players, in an attempt to work against their built in expectation that "Cards with Magic-like art are probably real reprints, and therefore 'safe'". The artwork for this card was David Bowie as the Goblin King inside one of those rooms with stairs leading in impossible directions. So, since people really liked that, I gave the card appropriate David Bowie flavor text. I continued the tradition in Magic 20XD6 with The Doors on the reprinted Breakthrough (though, I didn't attribute it there. I wondered if anyone would pick up on it.)