Psychic Surgery

Enchantment

Whenever an opponent shuffles his or her library, you may look at the top 2 cards of that library. You may exile one of those cards. Then put the rest on top of that library in any order.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (50)

Bookrook on Thousand-Year Shahrazad Storm (Extremely Cursed)

2 weeks ago

This is the best deck I’ve ever seen in my life I have to build this on paper but sharazad costs 500 dollars:(. If your trying to make this deck competitiver, you can add Psychic Surgery to mill your opponent out one shuffle at a time. Also play the twincasts and forks and all of the other copy spells to make this deck the most competitively viable and second most ridiculous deck in the universe. (Right behind trying to blink Oracle of the Alpha to win with Battle of Wits in commander).

Bookrook on Using shrazarad

1 month ago

That’s good to know for the Psychic Surgery deck with sharazad I’m building.

legendofa on Using shrazarad

1 month ago

Stupid idea time: Shahrazad + Psychic Surgery.

Get Surgery out, then cast Shahrazad. Whether you win or lose the subgame, everyone shuffles afterward, so Surgery pulls a card from your opponent's deck. One card closer to a mill win, and one less card they can use in the next subgame. Start as many subgames as you can from the main game with Twincast or whatever. You want long but shallow games, not sub-sub-subgames. It's the jankiest Lantern Control.

legendofa on Card creation challenge

1 year ago

More of developing a mostly non-existent archetype, if that counts. Inspired by Psychic Surgery, Madblind Mountain, Cosi's Trickster, Soldier of Fortune...

Balance of Entropy

{U}{U}{R}{R}

Enchantment

Whenever a player shuffles, you may scry 1.

Whenever you shuffle, you may pay {2}. If you do, draw a card

Whenever an opponent shuffles, you may pay {2} if you do, that player mills two cards.

{R}{R}: Target player shuffles.

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Create a {G}{W} card.

KongMing on How to lose your friends

2 years ago

What about Mindslaver and Strionic Resonator?

Nephalia Smuggler gives you evasion, and what's more, if you use it on creatures you control but someone else owns, they stay on your side when they flicker back in.

Something like Lantern of Insight, Wizened Snitches, Dakra Mystic, Psychic Surgery, and Glasses of Urza are all great ways to get some intelligence on what is in the opponents' hands. The topdeck surveillance combos especially well with Sen, as you already know from Hinder. See something nice on their topdeck? Take control of them, force them to draw, and then play the card before they ever get access to it.

Also, Isperia the Inscrutable seems like it would fit in well...

Wabbajacke on Circu, Dexile Lobotomist

2 years ago

Love it!

What do you think about Scheming Symmetry as a additional tutor? Your opponent will almost never get his card against your Deck and it works very well with Psychic Surgery.

FormOverFunction on Cards that exile Libraries in …

2 years ago

Oof a I was excited to be able to list Psychic Surgery for you, but you already have it lol. Check out my torture deck to see if there’s anything fun in there you might want. Circu is in there, along with things like Thought Prison which could maybe move things along for you.

Immortalys on Cards that exile Libraries in …

2 years ago

For my Circu, Dimir Lobotomist deck I am looking for cards that selectively pick apart my opponents decks. Think of cards Extract, Sadistic Sacrament and Denying Wind. The idea is to make a "mill" deck, but without having to actually mill all the cards, just my opponents wincons, and to have the "milled" cards go to exile to stop those nasty graveyard decks. They can't win with a deck full of lands, ramp and card draw after all, so why put effort into milling/exiling those cards? If there are very few cards like that, I will also accept cards like Life's Finale that don't exile but do search, Umbris, Fear Manifest that don't search but do exile, and/or cards that double up the existing effects like Lithoform Engine.

As a bonus, cards that trigger when an opponent shuffles their library like Psychic Surgery are also very welcome.