
: Target opponent discards two cards. Activate only during your turn, before attackers are declared.
Cao Cao is a mono-black discard general that grinds opponents out of resources, then closes with reusable hand attack and aristocrat or reanimator value. Each turn you tap him to strip two cards from a chosen opponent, supporting him with untap effects, ramp, and recursion so you can repeat the effect and pressure multiple players. You win by reducing the table to topdecks while you out-card them with black tutors and recursion.
Add untap enablers (Thousand-Year Elixir, Aphetto Alchemist, Magewright's Stone) and rituals to fire the discard multiple times per turn. Pivot toward a payoff package—Megrim, Bottomless Pit, Waste Not, Sangromancer—so discarding actively wins rather than just denies. Round it out with premium black tutors (Demonic Tutor, Vampiric Tutor), strong reanimation (Reanimate, Animate Dead), and fast mana like Dark Ritual and Cabal Coffers to power through clunky early turns.
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Same color identity (B), by popularity.