Hand destroy has to be one of the most brutal decks you can possibly face if it develops early in the contest. As stated above, 2 dark rituals plus this in your opening hand often spells near doom for your opponent, as their development will be significantly stymied. Hand destroy often has to be coupled with artifacts (i.e. Rack) or enchantments (i.e. Megrim) to be truly nasty. This card is the epitome of hand destroy. I've also found that Avatar of Will isn't to shabby in a hand destroy deck using Mind Twist.

  -- By Lunaticfringe from So Cal, USA on May 06, 2008

Mind Twist is an extremely powerful card and should be considered in any deck that runs black. A Dark Ritual powered Mind Twist (or even worse, a Mana Drain fueled Mind Twist) will frustrate even the best opponents! The MTG website article "Peeking in the Black Box" which was written on April 1st (hint, hint) and isn't a very accurate article to say the least.

  -- By Adam from Morgantown, WV on March 26, 2008

Powerfull... very powerfull... Best discard card ever printed. Megrim, Mind Twist, Racks, Hymns to tourach.. bah, you win xD

  -- By Chaito from Argentina on November 07, 2007

I see that Mind Twist is listed in the summer edition (edgar) but Mind Twist was never in edgar it was banned at the time so they desided to leave it out of the set and replace it with a card named Mind Theft. Mind Theft was only printed in this particular set, alongside with glacial supremacy which replaced Channel (also banned at the time) this makes them some of the rarest cards ever printed.

  -- By Stan from USA on March 10, 2007

this card is so demonic first turn 3 dark rits mind twist whole hand is gone thats crazy.

  -- By siggy from norwich ct on November 21, 2005

4 of these plus Megrim, The Rack, and Hypnotic Specter are the power to my bruiser discard/control. unbelievably overpowered and can be thrown into almost any deck for amazing results.

  -- By Anonymous from San Jose, CA on February 14, 2005

the most broken card for black

  -- By kaikai from Hell on February 06, 2005

UNDERWORLD DREAMS! (combo)

  -- By CLAUDEKORN from LAFONTAINE,QC,CANADA on February 17, 2004

So broken...first turn Mind Twist with 2 Dark Ritual and it is as if your opponent was already dead.

  -- By Richter from Lyon, FRANCE on September 16, 2003

Easily one of the most broken Magic cards of all-time, not just for black. This is absolutely insane in any format! I highly recommend for EVERYONE to get 4 of these babies, 1 for play, 3 for trade.

  -- By Anonymous from Stevens Point, WI USA on November 06, 2002