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Beastie Beatdown

SorceryRed manaGreen mana

The fight spell has been drifting toward one-sidedness for years, and this is the fully committed version: you deal damage, they do not deal it back. Rabid Bite pointed the same direction, trading the reciprocal combat of the original Fight for a clean removal spell that keeps your creature intact. What distinguishes this one is that it pays you for filling a graveyard rather than for anything on the board: hit delirium and the fight becomes a pump-and-kill in one card, your creature growing by two before it throws its power at the target. That reframes the sequencing entirely. Cast early, it is a modest removal spell gated by your creature's existing power; cast once the yard holds four card types, it turns a two-drop into a real threat that trades up and survives, which is closer to a Giant Growth stapled to a burn spell than to a simple removal effect. The tension the delirium clause creates is the whole reason to run graveyard-feeding effects alongside it: the payoff is not the counters themselves but the swing in what a single card removes, from something you can just about outsize to something that clears a much bigger blocker. It asks a Golgari-adjacent Gruul deck to treat its graveyard as a resource, then rewards the discipline with a removal spell that also ends the game a turn sooner.

Beastie Beatdown (dsk)
DSK · #210uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.09
Foil: $0.19
Oracle Text

Rules text

Choose target creature you control and target creature an opponent controls. Delirium — If there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard, put two +1/+1 counters on the creature you control. The creature you control deals damage equal to its power to the creature an opponent controls.
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
Legal
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