---
name: "Pick the Brain"
mana_cost: "{2}{B}"
cmc: 3
type_line: "Sorcery"
colors: ["B"]
color_identity: ["B"]
keywords: ["Delirium"]
set: "SIR"
set_name: "Shadows over Innistrad Remastered"
collector_number: "129"
rarity: "uncommon"
artist: "Mathias Kollros"
oracle_id: "bef3fca4-7290-416c-a100-1b7abbe7886e"
canonical_url: "https://avascry.com/printing/pick-the-brain-sir"
legalities:
  commander: "legal"
  standard: "not_legal"
  modern: "legal"
  pioneer: "legal"
  legacy: "legal"
  vintage: "legal"
  pauper: "not_legal"
  penny: "not_legal"
---

# Pick the Brain
- **Mana Cost:** `{2}{B}` (CMC: 3)
- **Type:** Sorcery
- **Keywords:** Delirium

## Oracle Text
Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it and exile that card.
Delirium — If there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard, search that player's graveyard, hand, and library for any number of cards with the same name as the exiled card, exile those cards, then that player shuffles.

## Top 4096-Dim Neural Synergies
1. [Brainbite](/printing/brainbite-arb.md) — Sorcery
2. [Brain Maggot](/printing/brain-maggot-f14.md) — Enchantment Creature — Insect
3. [Brain Pry](/printing/brain-pry-dis.md) — Sorcery
4. [Cerebral Confiscation](/printing/cerebral-confiscation-mkm.md) — Sorcery
5. [Specter's Shriek](/printing/specters-shriek-eld.md) — Sorcery
6. [Appetite for Brains](/printing/appetite-for-brains-avr.md) — Sorcery

## Printing Details
- **Set:** Shadows over Innistrad Remastered (SIR) #129
- **Rarity:** Uncommon
- **Artist:** Mathias Kollros
- **Total Printings:** 12 across all historical editions

## Format Legalities
Commander: `legal` | Standard: `not_legal` | Modern: `legal` | Pioneer: `legal` | Legacy: `legal` | Vintage: `legal` | Pauper: `not_legal` | Penny: `not_legal`