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Bestial Menace

Sorcery3 generic manaGreen manaGreen mana

Six power and toughness spread across three bodies for five mana, but the spread is the point. Token-makers that dump multiple creatures into play live or die by how the bodies divide, and this one splits its yield into a chump-blocker, a fair midrange beater, and something that trades up or holds the line. That granularity is what an anthem effect, a sacrifice outlet, or a mass pump multiplies: three separate triggers, three separate targets, three creatures that each clear a threshold something cares about. A single 6/6 token would be a worse card for all the same engines that make this one good, which is the quiet design logic behind splitting the same stat budget into Snake, Wolf, and Elephant rather than one fat creature. The tribal labels look like flavor filler and mostly are, but each token answering to a different creature type means a deck cares about more of them than any monotyped pile would. The cost is the honesty here: five mana at sorcery speed for board presence that does nothing the turn it lands gives every opponent a clean window to respond before the bodies matter. It is a midrange payoff, not a tempo play, and it has always read that way: green's way of buying three problems with one card and trusting the rest of the deck to make them worth more than their printed lines.

Bestial Menace (mm2)
MM2 · #141uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.13
Foil: $0.25
Oracle Text

Rules text

Create a 1/1 green Snake creature token, a 2/2 green Wolf creature token, and a 3/3 green Elephant creature token.
Legalities

Format Status

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

Other printings

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