Punish opponents for drawing
Symmetrical draw plus a penalty: everyone fills their hand, and only you are happy about it. The engine behind every Nekusar-style deck.
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| Card | Cost | Type | What it does | Price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Smothering Tithe | {3}{W} | Enchantment | Whenever an opponent draws a card, that player may pay {2}. If the player doesn't, you create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.") | $59.01 |
| 2 | Sign in Blood | {B}{B} | Sorcery | Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life. | $2.66 |
| 3 | Orcish Bowmasters | {1}{B} | Creature — Orc Archer | Flash When this creature enters and whenever an opponent draws a card except the first one they draw in each of their draw steps, this creature deals 1 damage to any target. Then amass Orcs 1. | $47.03 |
| 4 | Sheoldred, the Apocalypse | {2}{B}{B} | Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Praetor | Deathtouch Whenever you draw a card, you gain 2 life. Whenever an opponent draws a card, they lose 2 life. | $100.88 |
| 5 | Scrawling Crawler | {3} | Artifact Creature — Phyrexian Construct | At the beginning of your upkeep, each player draws a card. Whenever an opponent draws a card, that player loses 1 life. | $7.53 |
| 6 | Razorkin Needlehead | {R}{R} | Creature — Human Assassin | This creature has first strike during your turn. Whenever an opponent draws a card, this creature deals 1 damage to them. | $4.77 |
| 7 | Notion Thief | {2}{U}{B} | Creature — Human Rogue | Flash If an opponent would draw a card except the first one they draw in each of their draw steps, instead that player skips that draw and you draw a card. | $1.47 |
| 8 | Underworld Dreams | {B}{B}{B} | Enchantment | Whenever an opponent draws a card, this enchantment deals 1 damage to that player. | $2.17 |
| 9 | Fate Unraveler | {3}{B} | Enchantment Creature — Hag | Whenever an opponent draws a card, this creature deals 1 damage to that player. | $3.75 |
| 10 | Kederekt Parasite | {B} | Creature — Horror | Whenever an opponent draws a card, if you control a red permanent, you may have this creature deal 1 damage to that player. | $8.58 |
| 11 | Nekusar, the Mindrazer | {2}{U}{B}{R} | Legendary Creature — Zombie Wizard | At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player draws an additional card. Whenever an opponent draws a card, Nekusar deals 1 damage to that player. | $4.11 |
| 12 | Ob Nixilis, the Hate-Twisted | {3}{B}{B} | Legendary Planeswalker — Nixilis | Whenever an opponent draws a card, Ob Nixilis deals 1 damage to that player. −2: Destroy target creature. Its controller draws two cards. | $0.53 |
| 13 | Fevered Visions | {1}{U}{R} | Enchantment | At the beginning of each player's end step, that player draws a card. If the player is your opponent and has four or more cards in hand, this enchantment deals 2 damage to that player. | $1.53 |
| 14 | Phyrexian Tyranny | {U}{B}{R} | Enchantment | Whenever a player draws a card, that player loses 2 life unless they pay {2}. | $1.86 |
| 15 | Monumental Corruption | {3}{B}{B} | Sorcery | Target player draws X cards and loses X life, where X is the number of artifacts you control. | $0.40 |
| 16 | Foreboding Fruit | {2}{B} | Sorcery | Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life. Adamant — If at least three black mana was spent to cast this spell, create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.") | $0.15 |
| 17 | Caress of Phyrexia | {3}{B}{B} | Sorcery | Target player draws three cards, loses 3 life, and gets three poison counters. | $0.27 |
| 18 | Eldritch Pact | {6}{B} | Sorcery | Target player draws X cards and loses X life, where X is the number of cards in their graveyard. | $0.38 |
| 19 | Painful Lesson | {2}{B} | Sorcery | Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life. | $0.17 |
| 20 | Cerebral Vortex | {1}{U}{R} | Instant | Target player draws two cards, then Cerebral Vortex deals damage to that player equal to the number of cards they've drawn this turn. | $1.18 |
| 21 | Cost of Brilliance | {2}{B} | Sorcery | Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life. Put a +1/+1 counter on up to one target creature. | $0.17 |
| 22 | Reverent Howl | {2}{B} | Instant | Choose one — • Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life. • Target creature gets +2/+2 and gains lifelink until end of turn. | $0.18 |
| 23 | Toil // Trouble | {2}{B} // {2}{R} | Sorcery // Sorcery | Toil: Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life. Fuse (You may cast one or both halves of this card from your hand.) // Trouble: Trouble deals damage to target player equal to the number of cards in that player's hand. Fuse (You may… | $0.11 |
| 24 | Booby Trap | {6} | Artifact | As this artifact enters, choose an opponent and a card name other than a basic land card name. The chosen player reveals each card they draw. When the chosen player draws a card with the chosen name, sacrifice this artifact. If you do, t… | $0.59 |
| 25 | Harrowing Journey | {4}{B} | Sorcery | Target player draws three cards and loses 3 life. | $0.15 |
| 26 | Malignant Growth | {3}{G}{U} | Enchantment | Cumulative upkeep {1} (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.) At the beginning of your upkeep, put a growth counter on this enc… | $0.54 |
| 27 | Inzerva, Master of Insights | {1}{2/U}{2/R} | Legendary Planeswalker — Inzerva | +2: Draw two cards, then discard a card. −2: Look at the top two cards of each other player's library, then put any number of them on the bottom of that library and the rest on top in any order. Scry 2. −4: You get an emblem with "Your o… | — |
| 28 | Hullbreacher | {2}{U} | Creature — Merfolk Pirate | Flash If an opponent would draw a card except the first one they draw in each of their draw steps, instead you create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.") | $1.82 |
28 of 2730 cards the search scored for "cards that punish opponents for drawing". Ordered by how much each card is played, among the cards that matched. Prices and legality come from Scryfall; the list was last refreshed on 2026-09-23.
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