CardName: Thought Siphon
Cost: {1}{U/B}{B}
Type: Sorcery
Pow/Tgh: /
Rules Text: Target player discards a card and you draw a card.
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Set/Rarity: Multiverse Design Challenge Common
Thought Siphon
C
Sorcery
Target player discards a card and you draw a card.
No, I mean . Blue gets an extremely small amount of discard--see Mindculling or Frightful Delusion for examples. These kinds of effects usually appear in sets with a "color bleed" theme, though, like Planar Chaos or New Phyrexia. Meanwhile, black card draw is almost always accompanied by payment of an additional resource. This card could theoretically be a straight-up hybrid card, but I think "semihybrid" isn't unreasonable.
Honestly, though, this kind of thing is probably why we never see semihybrid cards to begin with.
Yeah, but I think this actually works well in black, like black gets "deal 2 damage, gain 2 life" as a drain effect, it should get "discard 2, you draw 2" as a drain effect. I can't remember if it does, though.
Yeah, this works better in monoblack than in monoblue. For one thing, because it's already been printed in monoblack: Syphon Mind emphasising the "drain" aspect, and Unhinge interpreting the last clause as just "cantrip" which every colour gets.
See Challenge # 118. I planned on costing it at
, but decided to play it safe.
Are you sure you don't mean
?
No, I mean
. Blue gets an extremely small amount of discard--see Mindculling or Frightful Delusion for examples. These kinds of effects usually appear in sets with a "color bleed" theme, though, like Planar Chaos or New Phyrexia. Meanwhile, black card draw is almost always accompanied by payment of an additional resource. This card could theoretically be a straight-up hybrid card, but I think "semihybrid" isn't unreasonable.
Honestly, though, this kind of thing is probably why we never see semihybrid cards to begin with.
Yeah, but I think this actually works well in black, like black gets "deal 2 damage, gain 2 life" as a drain effect, it should get "discard 2, you draw 2" as a drain effect. I can't remember if it does, though.
Yeah, this works better in monoblack than in monoblue. For one thing, because it's already been printed in monoblack: Syphon Mind emphasising the "drain" aspect, and Unhinge interpreting the last clause as just "cantrip" which every colour gets.
Changed mana cost
Fair enough.
it is. There are other semihybrid cards designed better than this, though, honestly.