Battle Hymn

Ritual mana has always carried a tension: you spend a card to get ahead on mana, so the payoff has to outrun the loss in card economy. Dark Ritual answers that by being unconditional, a flat exchange you can cast on turn one. This one takes the opposite bet, scaling its yield off the width you have already deployed. That means it does nothing in the empty-hand, empty-board state where most rituals want to live, and produces a tidal wave once a token swarm or a goblin horde is down. The result is a ritual built for a deck that has already done its setup, not one trying to skip ahead of the curve. The instant speed is the wrinkle worth dwelling on: most explosive ritual mana is locked to your own main phase by the spells it wants to chain into, but here you can hold up the burst, let an opponent commit, and only then convert your bodies into a flood of red to power an end-step pump, a haymaker flash spell, or a mid-combat reload. The card asks a deckbuilding question rather than answering one: it is only as good as the width you bring to it, and it rewards the kind of go-wide red deck that already wants more to do with a crowded board than just attack with it.