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Bronze Bombshell

Artifact Creature — Construct4 generic mana

A live grenade dressed up as a beater. A 4/1 for four mana is built to die cheap and trade badly, which is precisely the bait: the card wants to be stolen. Any opponent who reaches for a Control Magic or an Act of Treason effect inherits a ticking liability, because the trigger fires the instant they take control and forces a sacrifice that lands 7 damage on them. It punishes the exact theft a body this fragile would normally invite. But the trap has a seam worth reading carefully: the damage is conditional on the new controller actually sacrificing it to the trigger, so an opponent with an instant-speed sacrifice outlet can eat the Bombshell in response, satisfy nothing, and walk away clean. The clause deters control theft and gift effects far more reliably than it punishes aristocrats. That asymmetry is the design. Donate-and-burn shells flip the deterrent into a finisher: hand the Bombshell over yourself, let the trigger resolve, and 7 to the face arrives with no combat math required. It is a rare construction where the card's value peaks when you are not the one holding it, and where giving away a permanent is the line. The fragile frame and the punishing trigger are two halves of the same wager; neither makes sense without the other.

Bronze Bombshell (dis)
DIS · #160rare
Pricing
Normal: $10.40
Foil: $18.00
Oracle Text

Rules text

When a player other than this creature's owner controls it, that player sacrifices it. If the player does, this creature deals 7 damage to the player.
Legalities

Format Status

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