Sanity and the Stars

Type: Token

Rarity: Token

Mana Cost: —

Color Identity: Colorless

Reminder card. Sanity: each player begins the game with five sanity counters. A player with no sanity counters is Mad: creatures that player controls attack the nearest player at random each combat if able, and that player skips their draw step.

This is a SECOND TOTAL, and it sits on the PLAYERS, not on permanents. Damage does not touch it, lifegain does not repair it, hexproof does not protect it and no other deck in the multiverse can move it. It only ever goes down, one counter at a time, and it starts at five. A Mad player is not out of the game: they are still holding cards and still attacking, but the board they built now swings at whoever is sitting closest, chosen at random, and the game has stopped refilling their hand.

The Stars Are Right: this spell costs less to cast for each Mad player. A player with no sanity counters is Mad. Sixteen cards carry it and every one of them is a Great Old One. Cthulhu himself adds a lock on top: you can't cast him unless two or more players are Mad.

“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.”

Single card from the THE CALL OF CTHULHU (The Stars Are Right) Commander deck. Sold individually.