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Changed subtype.
Removed an ability.
Yeah, I like this version too. The opponent has a genuine choice, between the two payments if they have
mana. I hope it's not too annoying if it keeps coming back, but then your opponent has a decent chance to play round it.
This new version seems like a fun tweak on Mana Leak/Force Spike. I like it.
The Three Tragedies point is interesting, but doesn't quite hold due to the little word "other". As I read it, at the moment, if the target has precisely two cards in hand, you get to choose one for them to discard and they can't do anything about it (they can't even choose to ditch both their cards).
I think 5 is the right cost for this. Wizards seem to be happy to print sorceries at cost N that are "Target opponent chooses whether this is sorcery effect 1 or sorcery effect 2", where both those other sorcery effects can be cost N. Technically it's strictly inferior to both of them because it will always be whichever is less helpful to you... assuming perfect knowledge and strategy on the part of the opponent. See for example Distant Memories vs Concentrate, or Library of Lat-Nam vs Brilliant Plan.
And if they have 2 cards it's a targeted discard. AND you can use it on yourself (if, um, you reallly need a madness trigger? Or want to reanimate an eldrazi?)
So yeah, quite a lot of nice flexibility and interest.
In a card I wouldn't run in any deck because it costs five and doesn't win the game. But it can't really cost much less (mayyybe 4?)
Correction. I forgot that if your opponent only has one spell in hand, this turns into Mind Peel with the buyback always active. Hmm...
Three Tragedies would suggest that this isn't powerful enough, since your opponent would always have the option of turning this into that spell. (Okay, you do get a peek in their hand in the process... but outside of that.)
Humm, five is expensive enough that you're very rarely going to hit them with more than one card in hand. Still, it has to be expensive because it's targeted. (At a cost of 5 you can probably drop the 'non land' even, though I guess keeping a single land in hand gives them a way to be rid of this ongoing pain.)
Seems fair, maybe even overcosted.
I was trying to make a black version of Spell Extortion, but this probably just a fair effect without a high mana cost, or even with one, really. Maybe I would make it a straighter parallel and have it ask for a mana payment.
Changed the name.
I don't think "making" them pay
is bad, since they have the choice not to, at least at that time. Also, for the same mana cost, Mana Leak forces 
more mana. So... perhaps it's okay. I guess I would need to test it.
Well, coming back to hand makes it quite a lot better better than Force Spike, but it costs more so that's probably ok.
It usually makes your opponent have to pay 2 - which is pretty darn good for u1, but then, they can choose to pay only one. Hmmm.
I think that's where I'd cost it.
At 2u I'd want it back to being
per again.