Compulsion
Mana Cost:
Type: Enchantment
Oracle Text:
{1}{U}, Discard a card: Draw a card.
{1}{U}, Sacrifice this enchantment: Draw a card.
Power/Toughness: -/-
Rarity: uncommon
Prints: View all prints (1) →
Expansion: The List
Price ( USD): $0.12
USD: $0.12
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Character Background
Compulsion is a neat little piece of blue card flow that fits best in control or combo shells, where every extra card helps you stay ahead without spending a full spell slot on a simple cantrip. In practical terms, it turns excess lands, dead removal, or situational cards into fresh looks, and the second ability means it never completely runs out of value even if your hand empties. Because it asks for mana each time, it rewards decks built to play at instant-speed and hold up interaction, then cash in spare resources when the board is quiet. It pairs especially well with graveyard synergies, madness-style discard payoffs, or strategies that care about cards being put into the graveyard, since the discard is a cost you can benefit from. As a piece from The List, it carries that classic old-school blue feeling of cerebral, relentless refinement: not flashy, but perfect for the player who wants every card to become something more.
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