Lobotomy
Lobotomy refers to the act of exiling all (or any) copies of a card generally from target player's hand, library and graveyard. It alludes to the effect of its namesake, the Tempest card Lobotomy.[1]
Lobotomy effects are primary centered in black—flavored as permanently messing with people's minds. Blue also used to be getting a decent amount, but nowadays it is solely to be found in black.[2] Urza's Destiny had a lobotomy cycle that was reprinted in Betrayers of Kamigawa.
The most famous cards are Extirpate and Surgical Extraction.
Last Updated for Modern Horizons 3
Lobotomy cards are
Name | Cost | Original Set | What being lobotomized |
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Counterbore | Shadowmoor | Lobotomizes a countered spell. | |
Cranial Extraction | Champions of Kamigawa | Lobotomizes a nonland card of chosen card name. | |
Crumble to Dust | Battle for Zendikar | Lobotomizes a nonbasic land. | |
Deicide | Journey into Nyx | Lobotomizes an enchantment if it's also a God. | |
Dispossess | Amonkhet | Lobotomizes an artifact of chosen card name. | |
Eradicate | Urza's Destiny | Lobotomizes a nonblack creature. | |
Extirpate | Planar Chaos | Lobotomizes a chosen card, other than a basic land, from a graveyard. | |
Haunting Echoes | Odyssey | Lobotomizes all cards, others than a basic land, from a graveyard. | |
Infinite Obliteration | Magic Origins | Lobotomizes a creature of chosen card name. | |
Invasive Surgery | Shadows over Innistrad | Lobotomizes a countered sorcery spell if the player has enabled Delirium. | |
Lobotomy | Tempest | Lobotomizes a chosen card, other than a basic land, from a hand. | |
Lost Legacy | Kaladesh | Lobotomizes a nonartifact, nonland card of chosen card name. | |
Memoricide | Scars of Mirrodin | Lobotomizes a nonland card of chosen card name. | |
Pick the Brain | Shadows over Innistrad | Lobotomizes a chosen nonland card from a hand if the player has enabled Delirium. | |
Quash | Urza's Destiny | Lobotomizes a countered instant or sorcery spell. | |
Reap Intellect | Dragon's Maze | Lobotomizes chosen up to X nonland cards from a hand. | |
Scour | Urza's Destiny | Lobotomizes an enchantment. | |
Shimian Specter | Future Sight | Creature that lobotomizes a chosen nonland card from a hand when deals combat damage to that hand's player. | |
Slaughter Games | Return to Ravnica | Lobotomizes a nonland card of chosen card name. | |
Sowing Salt | Urza's Destiny | Lobotomizes a nonbasic land. | |
Splinter | Urza's Destiny | Lobotomizes an artifact. | |
Stain the Mind | Magic 2015 | Lobotomizes a nonland card of chosen card name. | |
Surgical Extraction | New Phyrexia | Lobotomizes a chosen card, other than a basic land, from a graveyard. | |
Thought Hemorrhage | Alara Reborn | Lobotomizes a nonland card of chosen card name. |
Name | Cost | Original Set | What being lobotomized |
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Look at Me, I'm the DCI | Unglued | Lobotomizes a card of chosen card name to all players (including their sideboards and the battlefield). The exiled cards remain exiled until the match ends. |