Discard and Draw: Difference between revisions

== [[Tabletop Games]] ==

* Very literal in the ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' card game. In the game's original metanarrative, the players are godlike wizards called planeswalkers; your deck is all the spells in your memory, while your hand is what spells you've brought to mind right at that moment. Instant and sorcery spells go to the graveyard after being cast, and every turn you draw one (or more, depending on game variant and/or whether you play certain spells that turn) card from the library, constantly changing up your current power set. Extended logically from this, spells that force a person to discard cards strongly imply elements of [[Mind Rape]] when taken to the game's metanarrative, and are named accordingly. (Mind Rot, Mind Twist, Mind Shatter, etc.)

** Did we mention that—Blue—loves cards like this?

*** Red has discard and draw, cards that often have you draw and then discard at random, or discard everything you've got to redraw. Blue has straight up draw. There are also cantrips, cards that allow you to draw as part of the spell being cast, in every colour.