Rankle, Master of Pranks
Oracle Text
Flying, haste
Whenever Rankle, Master of Pranks deals combat damage to a player, choose any number —
• Each player discards a card.
• Each player loses 1 life and draws a card.
• Each player sacrifices a creature.
The main implication is that if they have no cards in hand you can't make them draw a card and then discard it.
Correct me if I am mistaken?
Besides that, I think this card is just absurdly OP. A deck built to withstand all these effects is going to run amok against a deck that isn't. If this legend isn't at top standard tables for the months after ToE's release I will be very surprised.
I don't often pre-order cards, but at the price most places are predicting I am definitely getting a set of this guy stat.
Correct... but you also can choose which of the effects you want. So if you want to strip their hand, you can say yes to the discard and no to the draw.