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Burrog Barrage

Instant1 generic manaGreen mana

A fight spell with a spellcasting toll built into its ceiling. The baseline is already efficient: your creature deals its power to an opposing creature, one-sided rather than a mutual trade, so the exchange favors you the way a targeted removal spell would rather than a true fight. The +1/+0 rider is where the design gets pointed. It only turns on if you've cast another instant or sorcery earlier in the turn, which means the reward for chaining spells is not a card or a token but a single extra point of damage delivered exactly when it matters: the point that pushes a creature from surviving with one toughness to dying. That is a narrow, precise payoff, and it steers the card toward decks that were going to cast a cheap cantrip or burn spell first anyway. Timing carries the rest. As an instant, it answers a blocker mid-combat or ambushes an attacker, and because the damage scales with the power of your own creature, a big green threat becomes a piece of premium removal without ever entering combat. The tension it resolves is a familiar one for green removal: how to reward the spells-matter builds that green usually locks out, without simply handing them a burn spell. The answer here is to keep the boost conditional, cap it at a single point, and tether the whole effect to a body you already control.

Burrog Barrage (sos)
SOS · #141common
Pricing
Normal: $0.12
Foil: $0.18
Oracle Text

Rules text

Target creature you control gets +1/+0 until end of turn if you've cast another instant or sorcery spell this turn. Then it deals damage equal to its power to up to one target creature an opponent controls.
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
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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