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Brain Pry

Magic: The GatheringDissension#39

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Mana cost

DissensionDIS · #39

Card type: Sorcery
Rarity: Uncommon
Indicative price: 0.09 € · ★ 0.28 € · 0.16 $
Mana value: 2
Colour: Black

Card 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.

Format legality

CommanderLegal
DuelLegal
LegacyLegal
ModernLegal
OathbreakerLegal
PennyLegal
PredhLegal
VintageLegal

Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).

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Printing information

Illustrator: Jim Nelson
Card language: English
Release date: 2006-05-05

Flavour text

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

Rulings

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.

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.