Encroach only grabs a land, and only a nonbasic land at that. Thoughtseize grabs ANY nonland card.
Generally, you want to strip the pivotal spells from your opponents. It doesn't matter if they hit their land drops if they can't actually win the game because you took their Infernal Tutor or Stoneforge Mystic or whatever.
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Yeah, it's easy to misread it; I think the effect you're looking for is "choose a card other than a basic land." This could technically be argued to mean the same thing, but unfortunately that's not how it works.
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Isn't Encroach strictly a lot better and can act as land destruction in an opening hand AND not take 2 life?
I'm just wondering what I am missing
Thoughtseize grabs ANY nonland card.
Generally, you want to strip the pivotal spells from your opponents. It doesn't matter if they hit their land drops if they can't actually win the game because you took their Infernal Tutor or Stoneforge Mystic or whatever.
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This shouldn't even of been a question, I missread it 8 times. Thank you
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