Sudden Shock
59PlayableInstant
Time Spiral Remastered
2HG Rating
59/100
Gains value in 2HG: symmetrical lock piece.
- +9Symmetrical lock piece
Stax and tax effects tax two opponents for the price of one, while your team plans around them together.
Ratings start at a neutral 50 and are adjusted by rules derived from 2HG's structure — shared 60 life, shared turns, two opponents. They'll be recalibrated against real play rates once teams start submitting decklists.
Oracle text
Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.) Sudden Shock deals 2 damage to any target.
Legality
Plays well beside it
Shares the "symmetrical lock piece" axis — good candidates for your teammate's deck.
Suggestions are characteristic-based for now. Once teams submit pairings, this becomes a real co-occurrence score: played in X% of teams whose partner deck runs Sudden Shock.