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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30 of 2,741 cards the search scored
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Smothering Tithe
94%

Smothering Tithe EnchantmentWhenever an opponent draws a card, that player may pay {2}. If the player doesn't, you create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact $59.01

Sign in Blood
84%

Sign in Blood SorceryTarget player draws two cards and loses 2 life.$2.66

Orcish Bowmasters
94%

Orcish Bowmasters Creature — Orc ArcherFlash When this creature enters and whenever an opponent draws a card except the first one they draw in each of their draw steps, $47.03

Psychosis Crawler
79%

Psychosis Crawler Artifact Creature — Phyrexian HorrorPsychosis Crawler's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your hand. Whenever you draw a card, each opponen$2.49

Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
92%

Sheoldred, the Apocalypse Legendary Creature — Phyrexian PraetorDeathtouch Whenever you draw a card, you gain 2 life. Whenever an opponent draws a card, they lose 2 life.$100.88

Scrawling Crawler
92%

Scrawling Crawler Artifact Creature — Phyrexian ConstructAt the beginning of your upkeep, each player draws a card. Whenever an opponent draws a card, that player loses 1 life.$7.53

Razorkin Needlehead
95%

Razorkin Needlehead Creature — Human AssassinThis creature has first strike during your turn. Whenever an opponent draws a card, this creature deals 1 damage to them.$4.77

Insatiable Avarice
70%

Insatiable Avarice SorcerySpree (Choose one or more additional costs.) + {2} — Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. + {B}{$5.84

Notion Thief
84%

Notion Thief Creature — Human RogueFlash If an opponent would draw a card except the first one they draw in each of their draw steps, instead that player skips that $1.47

Underworld Dreams
96%

Underworld Dreams EnchantmentWhenever an opponent draws a card, this enchantment deals 1 damage to that player.$2.17

Fate Unraveler
96%

Fate Unraveler Enchantment Creature — HagWhenever an opponent draws a card, this creature deals 1 damage to that player.$3.75

Kederekt Parasite
90%

Kederekt Parasite Creature — HorrorWhenever an opponent draws a card, if you control a red permanent, you may have this creature deal 1 damage to that player.$8.58

Pact of the Serpent
74%

Pact of the Serpent SorceryChoose a creature type. Target player draws X cards and loses X life, where X is the number of creatures they control of the chose$1.28

Spiteful Visions
73%

Spiteful Visions EnchantmentAt the beginning of each player's draw step, that player draws an additional card. Whenever a player draws a card, this enchantmen$0.76

Damnable Pact
77%

Damnable Pact SorceryTarget player draws X cards and loses X life.$1.10

Blood Pact
76%

Blood Pact InstantTarget player draws two cards and loses 2 life.$0.31

Bloodgift Demon
74%

Bloodgift Demon Creature — DemonFlying At the beginning of your upkeep, target player draws a card and loses 1 life.$0.81

Decorum Dissertation
76%

Decorum Dissertation Sorcery — LessonTarget player draws two cards and loses 2 life. Paradigm (Then exile this spell. After you first resolve a spell with this name, y$4.93

Nekusar, the Mindrazer
92%

Nekusar, the Mindrazer Legendary Creature — Zombie WizardAt the beginning of each player's draw step, that player draws an additional card. Whenever an opponent draws a card, Nekusar deal$4.11

Molten Psyche
81%

Molten Psyche SorceryEach player shuffles the cards from their hand into their library, then draws that many cards. Metalcraft — If you control three o$4.44

Ob Nixilis, the Hate-Twisted
94%

Ob Nixilis, the Hate-Twisted Legendary Planeswalker — NixilisWhenever an opponent draws a card, Ob Nixilis deals 1 damage to that player. −2: Destroy target creature. Its controller draws two$0.53

Scheming Silvertongue // Sign in Blood
72%

Scheming Silvertongue // Sign in Blood Creature — Vampire Warlock // SorceryScheming Silvertongue: Flying, lifelink At the beginning of your second main phase, if you gained 2 or more life this turn, this c$1.07

Fevered Visions
88%

Fevered Visions EnchantmentAt 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$1.53

Teferi's Tutelage
71%

Teferi's Tutelage EnchantmentWhen this enchantment enters, draw a card, then discard a card. Whenever you draw a card, target opponent mills two cards. (They p$0.31

Zurzoth, Chaos Rider
74%

Zurzoth, Chaos Rider Legendary Creature — DevilWhenever an opponent draws their first card each turn, if it's not their turn, you create a 1/1 red Devil creature token with "Whe$1.86

Curse of Fool's Wisdom
71%

Curse of Fool's Wisdom Enchantment — Aura CurseEnchant player Whenever enchanted player draws a card, they lose 2 life and you gain 2 life. Madness {3}{B} (If you discard this c$4.82

Phyrexian Tyranny
81%

Phyrexian Tyranny EnchantmentWhenever a player draws a card, that player loses 2 life unless they pay {2}.$1.86

Monumental Corruption
82%

Monumental Corruption SorceryTarget player draws X cards and loses X life, where X is the number of artifacts you control.$0.40

Ominous Harvest
78%

Ominous Harvest SorceryGravestorm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each permanent put into a graveyard from the battlefield this turn.) Target play$0.35

Foreboding Fruit
83%

Foreboding Fruit SorceryTarget player draws two cards and loses 2 life. Adamant — If at least three black mana was spent to cast this spell, create a Food$0.15

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