Card Discard

Card Discard (also known as Hand Destruction) is the act of discarding cards from a players hand.

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As the card goes from your opponents hand into the graveyard, he is unable to play it. It also sometimes known as "Hand Destroy".

It is commonplace in the Darkness Civilization, but it sometimes also seen in the Water Civilization with cards that involve putting your opponents hand into his shields.

In Duel Masters, most cards are used from the hand, so disrupting this can lead to many advantages over your opponent.

Since it can interact with the card before they are put into the battle zone or mana zone, it has the following interactions.
 * You can deal with cards that have limited removal options from the battle zone such as a cross gear, or an Unchoosable creature such as Petrova, Channeler of Suns.
 * By discarding a Hand Addition card such as Cebu Aquman Jr. or Streaming Tutor you can stop your opponent from drawing a large hand.
 * By depriving cards from your opponents hand, you stop them from placing mana.
 * By taking the removal from their hand, it can stop them from destroying your finishers such as Bolmeteus Red Dragoon or a system creature like Bliss Totem, Avatar of Luck.

Card Discard is roughly separated into 3 methods based on the way the cards are discarded.
 * 1) Discarding cards and looking (Peeping Hand Destruction)
 * 2) Discarding cards without looking (Random Hand Destruction)
 * 3) Your opponent discarding his cards (Self Hand Destruction)

Jenny, the Dismantling Puppet and Pakurio are highly evaluated as they are able to discard the most important card after looking at your opponents hand. If your opponent is using cards with the Madness keyword, you are able to avoid it.

Cards that discard the entire card such as Lost Soul or Radio Roses, Zenith of "Wisdom" are especially powerful as your opponent will only be able to use the card he drew at the start of the next turn, limiting his options significantly. If even one copy of these cards are being used in a deck, the opponent needs to prepare and play cards in anticipation of the entire hand being discarded.

On the contrary, cards where your opponents can choose the discarded card can allow them to choose cards with a negative outcome to you, allowing them to discard unimportant cards tothem, to cards with madness. However, many of them (including Radio Roses, Demon Wolf, Betrayal Moonlight Castle and Nicol Bolas) discard multiple cards, allowing them not to gain much advantage.