Hypnotic Specter

Name
Hypnotic Specter

Mana Cost

Type
Creature — Specter

Set
Magic Online Promos

Rarity
Rare

Text

Flying
Whenever this creature deals damage to an opponent, that player discards a card at random.


Flavor Text

"There was no trace
Of aught on that illumined face . . . ."
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Phantom"


Power/Toughness
2/2

Number
#35040

Other Prints
Tenth Edition
Unlimited Edition
30th Anniversary Edition
Revised Edition
Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border
Fourth Edition
Ninth Edition
Anthologies
Collectors' Edition
Intl. Collectors' Edition
Foreign Black Border
Historic Anthology 1
Limited Edition Alpha
Limited Edition Beta
Magic 2010
Magic Player Rewards 2006
The List
Pro Tour Collector Set
The Zeta Set
Summer Magic / Edgar

Legal Formats
Brawl | Commander | Duel | Gladiator | Historic | Legacy | Modern | Oathbreaker | Penny | Premodern | Timeless | Vintage

Availability
Magic Online

Rulings

(01/08/2008)
The ability triggers even if the Specter’s damage is being redirected to an opponent. It does not trigger if damage that would have been dealt to the opponent is redirected to a nonopponent player or a creature, or if the damage is prevented.


Artist
Douglas Shuler

Translations
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