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Barrage of Expendables

EnchantmentRed mana

A repeatable sacrifice outlet that also points its damage somewhere useful, which is rarer than it sounds. Most free outlets ask a second card to convert the death into a payoff: plenty of sac engines just exile or sacrifice for value and leave the damage off the table. Here the outlet and the burn live in the same activated ability, so every creature you crack becomes a point of reach, at any target, at instant speed, as many times as you can pay the red. Goblin Bombardment is the obvious cousin, doing the same one-point-into-anything trick, but it charges nothing per fling; this one taxes you a red mana each time. That tax is what keeps it from being a true free engine: it turns an alpha-strike-into-fizzle plan into an arithmetic problem about how much untapped red you actually have when the board folds, and it caps the burst at your mana rather than at your creature count. The payoff for feeding it is that a creature's combat worth stops mattering: a wall of one-toughness tokens that would never push damage becomes a wall of one-damage pings aimed wherever you need them. The design sits quietly until a deck is built to feed it: a token generator, a recursion loop, anything that makes creatures cheap and expendable enough that turning them into stack-based damage is the highest use of the corpse.

Barrage of Expendables (m14)
M14 · #127uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.28
Foil: $0.67
Oracle Text

Rules text

Red mana, Sacrifice a creature: This enchantment deals 1 damage to any target.
Legalities

Format Status

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