Discard
Discard is a mechanic which takes cards from a player's hand and puts them in their library. Discard is in the black part of the color pie. Discard spells are more often at sorcery speed, a few have been printed at instant speed. The creature type Spectres are famous for causing players to discard cards when they are unblocked.
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List of discard spells
Instants
One card
- Funeral Charm -
their choice
Two cards
- Haunting Hymn - their choice — If played during your main phase, then they discard four cards.
Sorceries
One card
- Blackmail - they reveal three cards, you choose one and that card is discarded.
- Brain Pry -
name a nonland card, if its in that player's hand they discard a card with that name. If they can't, you draw a card.
Two cards
- Bog Down -
their choice — If kicker cost of sacrificing a land is paid then they discard three cards instead.
Variable cards
- Cabal Therapy - name a nonland card, target player discards all cards with that name. Also has flashback (sacrifice a creature).
- Cabal Conditioning -
any number of players each discards cards from their hand equal to the highest converted mana cost among permanents you control.