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Charge of the Forever-Beast

Sorcery2 generic manaGreen mana

Green rarely gets to point removal at a creature and pull the trigger, so when it does, the effect has to be paid for somewhere other than color-pie logic. Here the price is a card you show but keep: the damage scales off the power of a creature you reveal from hand, not one you commit to the board. That reveal-not-discard structure is the whole balancing act. It rewards a hand already stocked with fat green threats (a five-power creature turns this into a clean kill for a modest cost) while doing nothing when your hand is empty or full of small bodies. The card you reveal stays castable next turn, so you are never trading two cards for one; you are borrowing a creature's power to point damage somewhere and handing the creature back.

The result is a fight-style effect stripped of the risk that usually defines the archetype. Prey Upon asks your creature to survive the exchange and exposes it to a combat trick or a chump block; even Rabid Bite, which deals damage one way, still demands a creature on the battlefield the opponent can pressure or answer. This measures against a card that never leaves your hand and never touches the battlefield. Green's sorcery-speed answer to a planeswalker or an oversized blocker becomes a function of how top-heavy your deck already wants to be, a deckbuilding tension green is comfortable leaning into rather than a weakness the card has to apologize for.

Charge of the Forever-Beast (iko)
IKO · #147uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.12
Foil: $0.27
Oracle Text

Rules text

As an additional cost to cast this spell, reveal a creature card from your hand. Charge of the Forever-Beast deals damage to target creature or planeswalker equal to the revealed card's power.
Legalities

Format Status

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