Lobotomy
World Championship Decks 1998 bs267 • uncommon
- Set
- World Championship Decks 1998
- Collector number
- bs267
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Mana cost
- 2 generic mana blue mana black mana
- Type
- Sorcery
- Colors
- Black · Blue
- Artist
- Thomas M. Baxa
- Finish
- Gold
What it does
Target player reveals their hand, then you choose a card other than a basic land card from it. Search that player's graveyard, hand, and library for all cards with the same name as the chosen card and exile them. Then that player shuffles.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernNot legal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
The Lobotomy card was originally released as part of the Tempest expansion in 1997, but this specific version originates from the 1998 World Championship Decks. These decks were produced by Wizards of the Coast to replicate the exact 75-card tournament deck lists used by the top players at the 1998 Magic: The Gathering World Championship. They were designed as a way for players to experience professional-level strategies using gold-bordered cards that are not tournament-legal in standard play.
The artwork for Lobotomy was commissioned from illustrator Thomas M. Baxa, whose dark, visceral aesthetic was a staple of the era's trading card game scene. Baxa’s illustration depicts the clinical, unsettling nature of the spell, effectively communicating its function of stripping specific threats from an opponent's hand and library. The card gained notoriety for its disruptive potential in control decks, serving as a tactical tool to dismantle an opponent's win conditions before they could be deployed.
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