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Bloodfire Dwarf

Creature — DwarfRed mana

The asymmetry is the whole point. For a single red mana you cash in the 1/1 body and fire off one point of damage to every creature without flying, which means your evasive attackers walk away clean while an opposing ground swarm of X/1s gets erased. That flying clause turns what reads as a symmetrical pulse into a one-sided ground sweep whenever your own board is in the air. The damage is small enough that anything with two toughness shrugs it off, so this is a scalpel for go-wide and token strategies, not a true board wipe. What makes it work is that the cost is so cheap to pay: a fragile red one-drop is rarely doing much on defense anyway, and giving it a deferred sweep means it keeps a job even after it stops attacking. It sits squarely in mono-red's long-running line of self-immolating utility creatures, the ones designed to be worth more dead than alive, where the body is just a delivery vehicle for the activated effect on the way out. The reward for building around evasion is baked into the sweep restriction itself: the more your deck leans on fliers, the more lopsided the trade becomes.

Bloodfire Dwarf (apc)
APC · #56common
Pricing
Normal: $0.25
Foil: $23.64
Oracle Text

Rules text

Red mana, Sacrifice this creature: It deals 1 damage to each creature without flying.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
Brawl
N/A
Historic
N/A
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
N/A
Standard Brawl
N/A
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Old School
N/A
Premodern
Legal
PreDH
Legal
Pauper Commander
Legal
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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