Created from Challenge # 099 based on the name of Peek into Hell.

Inspired by Blightning and Cabal Therapy. Is this way too good? I don't like discard spells so I kind of tune them out to some extent, and I have no idea whether the possibility of this nugging someone for 9-12 damage is worth the way that on first casting it'll often do nothing, unless you've first hit with a Duress or a Shimian Specter.

Thank you for liking the name!

And yeah, I'm not sure on the strength. My best guess is that it's too swingy for limited (especially at common), and would be almost as interesting if it was just "for each name, discard a card with that name". But I don't have good sense of discard spells either.

It could form a devastating discard deck, with Thoughtseize, Peek into Hell #2 and Blightning, and there's lots of one-mana thoughtseize variants (including Gitaxian Probe), enough to ensure a good turn 1 and fill in the gaps. But that would have to be in modern, and I don't know if it's more broken than other modern decks :) Certainly very griefer-y :)

Good point, yes, it's very easy to follow up a turn 1 Duress/Thoughtseize/Ostracize/etc with turn 2 this, at which point it's pretty brutal: a lot nastier than Hymn to Tourach, for example, and indeed even nastier than Blightning. So something ought to change - maybe just making this 3 mana as a more direct alternative to Blightning.

I'm not sure. I can see this going in two directions.

(i) Tone it down. Eg. make it "B. Name a card. Target player reveals their hand and discards a card with that name. If they do, they lose 3 life." That seems interesting and not inappropriate for the name. Does it already exist? If not, it should. (ii) Embrace the griefer-ness, keep the large swing, and increase the cost a bit.

I'm not sure how it compares to Blightning. Maybe it even has to cost MORE because it will usually miss, but in a dedicated discard deck, it's basically "blightning but worse" and blightning was pretty awful to start with...