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Bite Down

Instant1 generic manaGreen mana

Fight effects have always been green's answer to the color's inability to kill things directly: point your big creature at their small one, deal damage, take damage back. This design cuts the return trip. Instead of a mutual exchange, only your creature deals its damage, which turns a symmetrical brawl into clean, one-sided removal. That single edit changes what the effect can safely target. A traditional fight spell punishes you for aiming at anything with meaningful power, so a Prey Upon forces you to weigh the trade; here the defending creature never swings back, and the instant-speed window lets you shoot at end of turn, ambush an attacker before damage, or blow out a combat math the opponent thought they had solved. The other quiet upgrade is the reach: most green removal of this shape stops at creatures, but this one extends to planeswalkers, letting a large body chip or delete a walker without committing to an attack. What pays for all of it is the requirement that you already control a creature worth pointing, and one whose power is high enough to matter. The spell does nothing on an empty board and little behind a small one, which keeps it honest as a payoff for green's creature-first game plan rather than generic interaction.

Bite Down (j25)
J25 · #636common
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to target creature or planeswalker you don't control.
Legalities

Format Status

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