Whispering Madness
Commander 2016 229 • rare
- Set
- Commander 2016
- Collector number
- 229
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana cost
- 2 generic mana blue mana black mana
- Type
- Sorcery
- Colors
- Black · Blue
- Artist
- Clint Cearley
- Market price
- $3.71
What it does
Each player discards their hand, then draws cards equal to the greatest number of cards a player discarded this way.
Cipher (Then you may exile this spell card encoded on a creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player, its controller may cast a copy of the encoded card without paying its mana cost.)
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerLegal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Whispering Madness was released in 2016 as part of the Commander 2016 expansion for Magic: The Gathering. Originally debuting in the 2013 Gatecrash set, its inclusion in the 'Breed Lethality' Commander deck was designed to support strategies centered around card advantage and graveyard synergies, specifically leveraging the 'cipher' keyword mechanic that allows players to encode spells onto creatures for recurring effects.
The card features artwork by Clint Cearley, who utilized a haunting, surrealist aesthetic to represent the card's theme of psychological manipulation and forced discard. The illustration depicts a spectral figure whispering into a subject's ear, effectively conveying the 'windfall' effect where players must discard their hands and draw new ones, which has made it a staple among players who enjoy chaotic, high-interaction deck builds.
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