Thought Hemorrhage
Sorcery
Choose a nonland card name. Target player reveals their hand. Thought Hemorrhage deals 3 damage to that player for each card with the chosen name revealed this way. Search that player's graveyard, hand, and library for all cards with that name and exile them. Then that player shuffles.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BR
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Alara Reborn
- Price
- $0.31
- EDHREC rank
- #30568
Thought Hemorrhage hits every copy of a named card across all zones — hand, library, and graveyard — and deals damage equal to the number removed, making it a surgical strike against a combo piece and a burn spell rolled into one. Four mana in Rakdos colors is the full ask, and that cost is worth it when you can name the exact card an opponent's deck can't function without.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Thought Hemorrhage earns its slot — in a 100-card singleton format, naming a combo piece guarantees a hit, and the damage bonus is a meaningful incidental swing at a 40-life total. In Legacy and Vintage the card is legal but obsolete; Surgical Extraction and Extirpate do the same job for one mana at instant speed, and those formats punish four-mana sorceries that don't win the game immediately. Oathbreaker mirrors the Commander calculus at a smaller scale — the 20-life total makes the damage clause more impactful, and singleton construction makes naming a key card almost always correct.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.31 bulk tier
At $0.31, Thought Hemorrhage sits firmly in bulk territory — you're paying almost nothing for a card that does real work in Commander. The price reflects its absence from competitive formats, not its power level in casual 100-card pods, so it holds value as a cheap include rather than a spec target.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.