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Battle-Rage Blessing

Instant1 generic manaBlack mana

Two keywords bolted to one creature for the duration of a turn, and the pair conspires into something closer to removal than to a pump spell. Deathtouch means the target only needs to connect once, so any body becomes a lethal blocker or a lethal attacker regardless of its size. Indestructible then guarantees the creature survives the exchange it just won: the trade never runs both ways. Handed to a blocker, it devours the attacker and takes nothing home; handed to an attacker, it forces the opponent to eat the hit or throw a creature into a fight already decided. The real work happens in the interaction, since indestructible also shrugs off a destroy-based kill spell aimed at the creature once it has resolved, or the fixed damage of a burn effect meant to trade with the creature. So a card that reads like combat aggression functions as protection and ambush at once, resolving the instant blocks are declared and rewriting the arithmetic of a single combat. As an instant, its edge is entirely in the surprise: it does its one job and heads to the graveyard, so the opponent who walked into the block gets no rematch.

Battle-Rage Blessing (plst)
PLST · #DMU-80common
Pricing
Normal: $0.12
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Target creature gains deathtouch and indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
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
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

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