He doesn't because there are no cards you can discard, if your hand is empty and you play Succubus, you don't discard a card to, because there is no card you can discard.
Once you know it, the card text is pretty clear and unambiguous. But at first I also fell for that "trap" and thought my opponent will get fatigued after he's out of cards. However, everything works as intended since the opponent does not have to draw cards, but only to discard them from the deck. And thus, there is no "fel reaver rule".
As lots of people explained already, discarding and drawing are two different things. But don't worry, I bet most people have been surprised by it at first, I know I surely was.
What it means in practice is, however, more interesting: It is generally not a useful strategy to try to mill your opponent after he has played a Fel Reaver. Only in cases where you can completely deplete their deck will you usually see benefits from milling, and even then the benefits don't come from fatigue damage, but from the lack of resources your opponent suffers from.
I have actually managed to die to (and kill with) a Fel Reaver even after the deck has been completely depleted. I have also once successfully milled my Fel-Reaver-playing opponent to the point where fatigue damage killed them at the beginning of their turn - and I did it intentionally. The rarity of such an event is demonstrated by how I happen to remember that one instance.
So once a person's deck is depleted they do do not discard cards off of Fel Reaver? I was a little surprised.
How would you discard cards, when there are no cards?
Why would they discard cards from their deck if they dont have a deck? Why would you think that?
Fel Reaver
Fel Reaver does exactly what it says. If there are no cards left, there's nothing to be discarded.
Fatigue damage only happens when you try to draw cards from an empty deck.
He doesn't because there are no cards you can discard, if your hand is empty and you play Succubus, you don't discard a card to, because there is no card you can discard.
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Once you know it, the card text is pretty clear and unambiguous. But at first I also fell for that "trap" and thought my opponent will get fatigued after he's out of cards. However, everything works as intended since the opponent does not have to draw cards, but only to discard them from the deck. And thus, there is no "fel reaver rule".
As lots of people explained already, discarding and drawing are two different things. But don't worry, I bet most people have been surprised by it at first, I know I surely was.
What it means in practice is, however, more interesting: It is generally not a useful strategy to try to mill your opponent after he has played a Fel Reaver. Only in cases where you can completely deplete their deck will you usually see benefits from milling, and even then the benefits don't come from fatigue damage, but from the lack of resources your opponent suffers from.
I have actually managed to die to (and kill with) a Fel Reaver even after the deck has been completely depleted. I have also once successfully milled my Fel-Reaver-playing opponent to the point where fatigue damage killed them at the beginning of their turn - and I did it intentionally. The rarity of such an event is demonstrated by how I happen to remember that one instance.
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