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Battlesong Berserker

Creature — Human Berserker3 generic manaRed mana

The trigger is the tell: this fires whenever you attack, not on entry, not once per game, so the pump is on offer every combat rather than being a one-shot spell you cast and forget. Most single-target combat buffs are instants that resolve and vanish from the equation; here the boost lives inside the attack step itself, and menace is the keyword that makes the extra power land. A defender who has stacked up a wall of blockers still has to commit two bodies to stop the chosen creature, so a single threat becomes a persistent tax on how the opponent can block: menace does not make the attacker unblockable, but it does make blocking it expensive. The +1/+0 is deliberately modest, and the toughness stays untouched, so the buff is pure aggression rather than a survival tool; the card is not built to be a finisher on its own but to reliably shove one attacker through a clogged board. That is also why it wants a wide board without being a go-wide payoff itself: it pumps exactly one creature per attack, so it prefers a team it can funnel into a single evasive spearhead over a swarm that dilutes the effect. Its best work comes against the gummed-up ground stalls that aggressive decks struggle to break, turning a repeatable menace grant into a way to pry those boards open.

Battlesong Berserker (fdn)
FDN · #78uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.11
Foil: $0.11
Oracle Text

Rules text

Whenever you attack, target creature you control gets +1/+0 and gains menace until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
Legalities

Format Status

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