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
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (50)

legendofa on Card creation challenge

8 months 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

1 year 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.

Hazankob on U/G Anti-spike Commander (EDH)

2 years ago

2021 update:

While thanks to the commander the deck doesn't run out of steam very often, unfortunately on occasion because of the commander, an opponent can have more steam than you are able to keep up with. Due to this I've decided to cut a couple of cards that "do nothing" outside of specific situations.

Out:

Psychic Surgery , which is basically a cheaper/weaker mindlock orb.

Leyline of Anticipation , I'm a huge fan of this card so it was a difficult cut, however with Teferi and Alchemist's Refuge in the deck, and also considering the large ratio of instants or cards with flash therein, its not a massive loss.

Archmage's Charm , Not gonna lie, I've never liked this spell, I just wanted to steal someone's Sol Ring with it and since I have a couple of 4 mana counterspells I figured it was a justifiable inclusion. I never did steal a Sol Ring and there even was a time where it was a dead draw because I was stuck on 2 blue.

In:

Decisive Denial , The most obvious inclusion. In general this card just seems powerful. Removal? Check. Counterspell? Check. It also fits on a scepter. Much better than Archmage's Charm.

Fumble , Another scepter target. My dream is to steal an Eldrazi Conscription or a Kaldra with this. Another unseen use of this card is how it interacts with control magic effects. Powerful on paper, lets see how it holds up in practice.

Scroll Rack , This card speaks for itself. I didn't cut Leyline because I dislike leyline, I cut it because I needed to make room for this.

Neotrup on When you have to loot …

3 years ago

In the rule I quoted, 'when' appears after a period and is capitalized. It does look different in reminder text, but reminder text is supposed to remind you generally how a mechanic works, not go into depth on the rules nuances, like how Partner With reminder text doesn't include the word search, but the rules for Partner With do, so it does trigger effects like Psychic Surgery.

VampDemigod on I_want_to_playallthedecks’s Thada Adel deck

3 years ago

Psychic Surgery, Psychogenic Probe, and Rootwater Thief might be fun includes.