How can you people argue over what it does?
You cast it.
It resolves.
Starting with you and going in turn order, each play be choose to have it deal 6 damage to them.
If a player does let it deal 6 damage to them, they take 6 and that's it. 2 mana for 6 damage to the face.
If no player lets it deal 6 to them, you may THAN target a player and put the top 6 cards of their library into their graveyard and that's it.
Yes you can give your self instant threshold, but you can also just plain mill someone else. It's flexable like that.
Posted By:
wolfbear2
(11/6/2009 12:45:30 PM)
Next turn Browbeat.
Posted By:
DacenOctavio
(1/13/2011 5:39:02 PM)
Odyssey block had some of the best (or is that worst?) flavor text. Wild Mongrel, Gorilla Titan and Werebear. I always thought it was a coincidence, then I read that Mark Rosewater was in charge of flavor texts three times: Unglued, Unhinged and Odyssey. Suddenly it all makes sense.
Posted By:
SirZapdos
(6/10/2012 10:24:43 AM)
Nice as a threshold enabler, but still crap. I can't believe that trees died for this to be printed.
Posted By:
BongRipper420
(10/19/2012 5:14:59 PM)
So there were these guys that put this card in their burn decks for a while, and my friend always took the 6 because he was afraid of the mill... I told him "dude, its just six cards, and they're trying to burn you to death!" But no, this card is apparently his weakness.
Posted By:
Kryptnyt
(7/20/2011 11:34:12 PM)
put in a blue black and red deck with cards such as glimpse the unthinkable and grinding and insanity grinder and u have a decent if expensive burn deck
Posted By:
zositmos
(7/15/2010 7:38:14 PM)
holy shit. i just finally understand what that card means now. i feel like a dumbass. i always thought the other player must have a book burning card in their hand. i always read it as "unless a player has book burning *COMMA*, etc etc.....but no. its "unless a player LETS you do 6 damage to them, have them put the top 6 cards into there library. aka the cardmakers assume nobody wants to take 6 damage. thats why they worded it so weird.shiiiiiiiit
Posted By:
freedomman
(2/18/2010 10:35:45 PM)
Many people seem to get this card wrong. It means "target player may choose one: either book burning deals 6 damage to him/her, or he gets milled for 6".
Note that if you play the card on yourself, you have instantly reached threshold (for cards like Fledgling Dragon) on turn two.
Posted By:
majinara
(2/5/2009 2:03:51 AM)
that's not what the card does at all.
Posted By:
Hydrogoose
(3/15/2009 6:25:04 AM)
@DarthParallax
Hahahahahahahaha
Browbeat is apparently better draw spells compared to :
Careful study, Breakthrough, Deep Analysis, and Standstill.
You must know how to play magic.
Posted By:
Hoonster
(4/3/2012 8:38:26 PM)