Notion Thief
- Mana cost
- {2}{U}{B}
- Type
- Creature — Human Rogue
- Power / toughness
- 3 / 1
- Set
- Secret Lair Drop #7156 (rare)
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.
Notion Thief has 8 printings, first in Dragon's Maze (2013). EDHREC ranks it #1,223 among Commander cards. It appears most in Sauron, the Dark Lord decks (10,690 on EDHREC). 2 public decks on TCG run it. It has 3 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: legal
Public decks that run Notion Thief
- Hosts of Mordor - Tales of Middle-earth Commander, led by Sauron, Lord of the Rings
- Sneak Attack - Zendikar Rising Commander, led by Anowon, the Ruin Thief
Commanders that run Notion Thief most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Sauron, the Dark Lord: 10,690 decks
- Anowon, the Ruin Thief: 5,081 decks
- Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin: 3,989 decks
- Queza, Augur of Agonies: 3,834 decks
- Glarb, Calamity's Augur: 3,634 decks
- Alela, Cunning Conqueror: 2,926 decks
- Fire Lord Azula: 2,789 decks
- Talion, the Kindly Lord: 2,773 decks
Often played with Notion Thief
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : 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.
- : 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.
- : 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.