Deadly Cover-Up — Quiet the Board, Claim the Clues
Deadly Cover-Up is a pragmatic mass removal that trades tempo for a chance to lock down an opponent's resources. For {3}{B}{B} and choosing to collect evidence six you clear the battlefield of creatures and, if evidence was collected, chain into targeted exile effects against a single opponent. The sequence is clean and predictable which makes the card valuable in control builds that plan around graveyard interaction and game ending inevitability.
Play it when you need to reset combat math and convert a sweep into card denial. After the creatures are destroyed you exile one card from the chosen opponent graveyard then search their graveyard hand and library for any number of cards with that name and exile them. That player shuffles then draws a card for each card exiled from their hand this way. It reads like a surgical strike that also rewards decks built to capitalize on the evidence mechanic and late game inevitabilities.
Card Details:
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Mana Cost – {3}{B}{B}
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Card Type – Sorcery
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Card Text / Rules Text (Printed) – As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may collect evidence 6. Destroy all creatures. If evidence was collected, exile a card from an opponent’s graveyard. Then search its owner’s graveyard, hand, and library for any number of cards with that name and exile them. That player shuffles, then draws a card for each card exiled from their hand this way.
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