Extract the Truth (SNC)

Extract the Truth
Casting Cost: {1}{B}
Card Type: Sorcery
Card Text:
Choose one —

• Target opponent reveals their hand. You may choose a creature, enchantment, or planeswalker card from it. That player discards that card.
• Target opponent sacrifices an enchantment.
  Artist: Josu Hernaiz

Strengths and Weaknesses:

• Strengths:

  • Highly versatile, able to either force a discard or remove an enchantment.
  • Low mana cost makes it easy to fit into a curve.
  • Can target key threats in an opponent's hand or on the battlefield.

• Weaknesses:

  • Can't deal with instants or sorceries in the opponent's hand.
  • The enchantment sacrifice option is situational.

Deck Utility:

• Control or Midrange Decks: Useful for early-game disruption and late-game targeted removal of threats.

• Discard Strategies: Synergizes with cards that punish opponents for discarding or having a smaller hand.

• Enchantment Hate: Useful in metagames where enchantments are prevalent.

Interactions and Combos:

• Waste Not: Benefits from making the opponent discard a card.

• Liliana's Caress/Megrim: Deal damage to the opponent when they discard.

• Stony Silence/Rest in Peace: Can remove problematic enchantments that other cards can't deal with.

Flavor and Lore:

• The card's artwork and name suggest a dark form of interrogation, fitting for a card that delves into an opponent's hand or forces a sacrifice.

Overall Impression:

"Extract the Truth" is a versatile disruption card that can fit into various decks and strategies. While its enchantment removal is situational, the option to force a discard makes it a flexible card to have in many game states. It works best in decks that can capitalize on either of its modes.