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Apex Devastator

Creature — Chimera Hydra8 generic manaGreen manaGreen mana

Cascade began as a single free rider: one spell tags along when you cast a bigger one, adding a dividend of variance to a swing like Bloodbraid Elf. Stacking four instances on one spell is that idea pushed to its logical extreme, a rider inflated into an engine. Because each cascade resolves independently, casting this fires four separate digs, each peeling nonland cards until it hits one costing less than ten and casting it for free. That ten-mana floor is the whole payoff and the whole gamble: almost every nonland card in a green deck qualifies, so the ceiling on what you flip into is enormous, but you surrender all say in what you find or the order it arrives. The 10/10 body is nearly incidental, a place to hang the quadruple trigger and a threat that closes should the four free spells fizzle. Think of it as a piggy-bank you spend a decade of mana to smash open, the reward scaling exactly with how expensive and impactful the rest of your library is. It sits at the far end of the cascade lineage, where a mechanic invented to sprinkle a little chaos into a fair red-green midrange curve has been engineered into a one-card, four-shot lottery.

Apex Devastator (prm)
PRM · #86000mythic
Pricing
Normal: $5.66
Foil: $9.07
Oracle Text

Rules text

Cascade, cascade, cascade, cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order. Multiple instances of cascade each trigger separately.)
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
N/A
Historic
N/A
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
N/A
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
N/A
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

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