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Blood-Chin Rager

Creature — Human Warrior1 generic manaBlack mana

The Warrior tribe got its evasion enabler in this two-drop, and the design choice that matters is where the menace lives. It is not a static anthem and not a one-shot pump: the keyword arrives on attack and lasts only through end of turn, which ties the payoff to the swing rather than to board presence. That timing is what makes the body modest on purpose. A 2/2 that granted the whole team menace from the sidelines would warp combat math; instead it has to commit, and a wide Warrior board only gets the bonus while the Rager itself is in the red zone. The other quiet wrinkle is what menace does to a defender's gang-blocking: a single large blocker can no longer mop up an alpha strike, since every Warrior now demands two bodies to stop. Routing the bonus through menace rather than trample or flying keeps the team grounded but forces the defender into bad arithmetic: each attacker eats two blockers or none, so a small board can punch through a board that outnumbers it. Tribal evasion lords are rarer than tribal anthems, and most of the ones that exist hand out flight; this one weaponizes the math of who can legally block instead. It is built to make a wide field of small Warriors lethal in a single attack, which is exactly the job a go-wide aggro shell asks of its two-drops.

Blood-Chin Rager (dtk)
DTK · #89uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.21
Foil: $1.28
Oracle Text

Rules text

Whenever this creature attacks, Warrior creatures you control gain menace until end of turn. (They can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
Legalities

Format Status

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