See Challenge # 106b // Challenge # 106b.

Nice punny use of "halt" :) Very interesting effect on that side too. It's like "they discard a card", but not quite the same.

Thank you!

Lots of the real split cards are punny (I think?) either deliberately, or because you have to try as many different interpretations of the name as possible before you find one that fits the colour.

Yeah, I couldn't remember if I've seen "doesn't draw" before. I was trying to think of something that was "halt", and I could think of things in some colours, and despaired when I realised it had to be in UB. Then I thought of milling, and thence to this. I'm not sure it works, but it felt quite B but also plausibly dark-ish U :)

Oh indeed, I think the absolute best split card names are where both sides' mechanics take a different meaning of the word to the meaning in the aphorism. I think the best example is Odds // Ends: in the phrase "odds and ends" "odds" doesn't mean "chance" or "probability", and nor does "ends" mean "deaths". Most official split cards don't manage to quite live up to that though.

On the "skip the draw" front there's Plagiarize, actually, which is good enough blue precedent for this. Obviously more expensive, but that was because it could apply to more than one and also gave the card-draw to you.

Yeah, people asked to design split cards must feel like https://xkcd.com/208/ for puns :)

Yeah, I thought there was some "you draw instead", but I wasn't sure if that covered "no-one draws instead". I guess, effects that are subsets of other effects or weaker versions of other effects are sometimes in another colour, but there's no reason it needs to be here, it's suggestive that U is a good place for it if it exists.