Mindbender Unbound
Distended Mindbender brings a late game option for control decks that want more than a raw body. The card casts for eight colorless mana as printed but carries Emerge for five and two black which lets you cheat it into play by sacrificing a creature and paying the reduced emerge cost. When it resolves you force an opponent to reveal their hand, then pick a nonland card with mana value three or less and a card with mana value four or greater and those cards are discarded. The 5/5 body buys time while you tax their resources.
From an Innistrad perspective the Mindbender feels like eldritch surgery on your opponent's plans. It is a practical piece in a deck that can reliably offer a sacrifice target or that wants a high impact finisher that shapes the opponent's available answers. Use it to deny combo pieces or to remove a late game threat from a hand and follow up with pressure. Add this Near Mint Innistrad Remastered printing to rounds when you need a selectable hand disruption tool that also pressures the board. Pick one up to shore up your control matchups and to add a decisive endgame play to your pile.
Card Details:
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Mana Cost – {8}
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Card Type – Creature
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Subtypes – Eldrazi Insect
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Card Text / Rules Text (Printed) – Emerge {5}{B}{B} (You may cast this spell by sacrificing a creature and paying the emerge cost reduced by that creature's mana value.) When you cast this spell, target opponent reveals their hand. You choose from it a nonland card with mana value 3 or less and a card with mana value 4 or greater. That player discards those cards.
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Power / Toughness – 5/5
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Rarity – Rare
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Set – Innistrad Remastered
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Language – English
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Condition – Near Mint
