Card
Notion Thief
Mana cost {2}{U}{B}
Flash If an opponent would draw a card except the first one they draw in each of their draw steps, instead that player skips that draw and you draw a card.
Game Changer: not allowed in brackets 1–2, counts as one of the three allowed in bracket 3. Part of 9 known combos, 2 of them two-card. 3 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Game Changer
- On the official list — none allowed in brackets 1–2, at most three in bracket 3.
- Printing
- Rare · DGM · #88
- Cheapest printing
- €1.18
- EDHREC salt
- 1.96
- Color identity
- Black, Blue
- Keywords
- Flash
Bracket
- B1 Exhibition — not allowed: Game Changers are not allowed
- B2 Core — not allowed: Game Changers are not allowed
- B3 Upgraded — Not in the same deck as its early two-card combo partners: Teferi's Puzzle Box, Wedding Ring
- B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
- B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
Why
- On the official Game Changers list
- Two-card combo with Teferi's Puzzle Box, Wedding Ring (early with Teferi's Puzzle Box, Wedding Ring)
How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket
Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags
Combos
9 known combos, 2 of them two-card.
- Notion Thief + Teferi's Puzzle Box
Produces: Opponents put all cards in hand on the bottom of their library on each of their draw steps, Lock
View on Commander Spellbook - Wedding Ring + Notion Thief
Produces: Infinite card draw, Infinite draw triggers
View on Commander Spellbook - Consecrated Sphinx + Notion Thief + Wrong Turn
Produces: Infinite card draw for target opponent, Infinite draw triggers for target opponent, Target opponent loses the game
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2018-03-16 · Wizards of the Coast
If an opponent is instructed to draw a card then discard a card, and Notion Thief causes you to draw a card instead, that opponent still discards a card. The same is true of any other actions that opponent is instructed to do. - 2018-03-16 · Wizards of the Coast
If two or more players each control a Notion Thief and a player would draw a card other than the first one in their draw step, that player chooses one of the applicable Notion Thief effects to apply. Then the player whose Notion Thief's effect was chosen repeats this process among the remaining Notion Thief effects, and so on, until there are no more possible such effects to apply. Each effect can be applied to the card draw only once this way. - 2018-03-16 · Wizards of the Coast
The above procedure means that if each player in a two-player game controls a Notion Thief and one would draw a card, it really will be that player who draws a card.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast