Magic: The Gathering

Coercion

Beatdown Box Set 20 • common

Set: Beatdown Box Set
Collector number: 20
Rarity: Common
Mana cost: 2 generic mana black mana
Type: Sorcery
Colors: Black
Artist: Pete Venters
Market price: $0.27

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$0.27market price via TCGplayer · Aug 17, 2026$0.24 – $0.27 over the tracked period

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What it does

Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a card from it. That player discards that card.

"There's very little that escapes me, Greven. And you will escape very little if you fail."— Volrath

Formats

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StandardNot legal
PioneerNot legal
ModernLegal
LegacyLegal
VintageLegal
CommanderLegal
PauperLegal
BrawlNot legal
HistoricNot legal
TimelessNot legal
Penny DreadfulLegal
OathbreakerLegal

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Provenance

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Coercion was first introduced in the 1999 Beatdown Box Set, a product designed by Wizards of the Coast to provide new players with ready-to-play decks focused on aggressive, combat-oriented gameplay. As a black-aligned sorcery, the card reflects the color's thematic reliance on hand disruption and information control, allowing a player to look at an opponent's hand and discard a chosen card. The release sought to bolster the appeal of the game for casual players by packaging iconic mechanical concepts alongside simplified thematic structures.

The artwork for this iteration was rendered by Pete Venters, a prolific illustrator whose work defined much of the visual identity of the game during the late 1990s. Venters employed a dark, evocative style that emphasized the psychological weight of the card's effect, capturing a sense of looming dread that matched the spell's disruptive nature. Upon its inclusion in the box set, the card was received as a functional, if modest, staple for control-oriented strategies, serving as a classic example of early hand-disruption design.

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