Stronghold Discipline Black Card in Magic the Gathering

Video Transcript

"MIKE LOPEZ: Hi. I'm Mike Lopez with Expert Village, and today we're going to be discussing the black color from "Magic: The Gathering". And now I'm going to discuss "Stronghold Discipline". "Stronghold Discipline" is a powerful sorcery out of your basic set and it is an uncommon. It costs you 2 and 2 black to play and has been around since the beta release. What this is Stronghold Discipline, when you pay 4, each player loses 1 life for each creature he or she controls. So, the reason this is very powerful is because you are running up against a person who has a lot of creatures i.e. an elf, goblins, zombie, Kithkin deck or faerie means that you can cause them to lose 1 life, which means that if they are losing 1 life that means it cannot be prevented. You cannot prevent loss of life. So, this card in essence (if they have so many creatures), can effectively kill them off due to loss of life, which cannot be prevented. This is why this card is powerful."