Mind Twist
Limited Edition Alpha 115 • rare
- Set
- Limited Edition Alpha
- Collector number
- 115
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana cost
- X mana black mana
- Type
- Sorcery
- Colors
- Black
- Artist
- Julie Baroh
- Market price
- €1,682.09
What it does
Target player discards X cards at random.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernNot legal
- LegacyBanned
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Mind Twist was released in 1993 as part of Limited Edition Alpha, the inaugural set of the Magic: The Gathering trading card game. Created by Richard Garfield and published by Wizards of the Coast, the game emerged from a desire to design a portable, strategic experience that could be played in the downtime between other gaming sessions. Mind Twist was designed as an iconic black-mana spell, reflecting the color's thematic focus on discard and resource depletion.
The card’s haunting artwork was illustrated by artist Christopher Rush, one of the most prominent early contributors to the game’s visual identity. Rush utilized a stark, visceral style to convey the psychological disruption of the card’s effect, which forces opponents to discard cards at random. While its power level eventually led to significant restrictions in competitive tournament play, Mind Twist remains a definitive piece of Magic history, representing the untamed, high-impact design philosophy of the game’s earliest days.
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