Bandit's Talent

Enchantment — Class

(This enters at Level 1: You may increase this enchantment's level by one by paying the appropriate costs. This card gains the ability associated with that level. Activate this ability to increase the level only as a sorcery.)

Level 1

When this enters, each opponent discards two cards unless they discard a nonland card.

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{B}: Level 2

At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, if that player has one or fewer cards in hand, they lose 2 life.

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{3}{B}: Level 3

At the beginning of your draw step, draw an additional card for each opponent who has one or fewer cards in hand.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Alchemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Historic Brawl	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Pre-release	Legal
Standard	Legal
Standard Brawl	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (5)

plakjekaas on Any discard payoffs on mono …

4 months ago

Bandit's Talent

Liliana, Waker of the Dead

Geier Reach Sanitarium to make sure people keep discarding

RiotRunner789 on Any discard payoffs on mono …

4 months ago

Bandit's Talent is the newest payoff. Each level is great but you don't get resources till 3.

Asylum Visitor for tons of cards.

Sangromancer for stupid amounts of life.

Technically reanimate spells are also payoffs and even Bloodchief Ascension for incremental life gain.

Abaques on Your favourite Card from Bloomburrow

4 months ago

RiotRunner789 I totally lost to Bandit's Talent in pre-release. That card did some work.

RiotRunner789 on Your favourite Card from Bloomburrow

4 months ago

My favorite is Bandit's Talent. Not a ton of good discard cards come around that often. Though the strategy has seen more love since Tiny Bones.

Flavor wise though, Tempt with Bunnies is the best. Solid addition to the tempt series and who can say no to a bunny?

wallisface on Rakdos discard aggro

4 months ago

Some thoughts:

• there is already an established archetype called “8rack” which I would suggest googling to get an idea of what the competitive decks in this vein are doing. In particular, some good example lists to use as inspiration are this and this

• your current sideboard feels a lot like “cards you couldn’t fit in the mainboard”. I’d suggest gearing this towards actually fighting your problem matchups instead.

• The new card from Bloomburrow, Bandit's Talent has been seemingly doing very well so far in 8rack testing by various youtubers, and it seems to be a better version of Shrieking Affliction in basically every conceivable metric. I’d suggest giving it a trt.