Collective Brutality: Trim the Hand, Tip the Scales
Collective Brutality from Innistrad Remastered is a compact utility sorcery that gives you flexible disruption for a single black mana plus one. The Retro Frame art and text layout make it feel at home in graveyard focused and midrange lists alike. Play it for raw hand control by forcing an opponent to reveal and lose a key instant or sorcery, punish attackers or blockers with a timely -2/-2, or stabilize a race by draining two life and gaining two, and do more by paying the escalate cost.
The card rewards precise choices more than brute force. Use Collective Brutality to remove a combo piece, shrink a threatening creature, or swing a tight life total in your favor. It slots cleanly into sideboards against control, can support graveyard synergies, and offers late game utility without clogging your curve. Add one to your collection or deck and see which mode decides your matchups.
Card Details:
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Mana Cost – {1}{B}
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Card Type – Sorcery
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Subtypes –
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Card Text / Rules Text (Printed) – Escalate. Discard a card. Choose one or more —
- Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose an instant or sorcery card from it. That player discards that card.
- Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn.
- Target opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
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Power / Toughness – Not applicable
