Brain Pry · CommanderView

Brain Pry

Brain Pry

Sorcery

Oracle text

Choose a nonland card name. Target player reveals their hand. That player discards a card with that name. If they can't, you draw a card.

To the Rakdos, the fun is in the shakedown. The loot is usually discarded.

Illustrated by Jim Nelson

Released on May 5, 2006

Tags

black effectcantripcard advantagediscarddrawguesshand disruptionhate namedname matterspeekpeek handpure drawsingle target instant/sorcerysingle target instant/sorcery

Legality

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1v1 Commander
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Tiny Leaders: Reborn

LegalNot legalBanned / restrictedUnknown

Rulings

2014-02-01
If you target yourself with this spell, you must reveal your entire hand to the other players just as any other player would.
2006-05-01
You name the card during Brain Pry’s resolution, then the player reveals their hand and discards if appropriate. There is no way for the player to do anything between you naming the card and the player discarding.