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Cleaver Riot

Sorcery4 generic manaRed mana

Double strike across the whole team is the rare team-buff that scales with what you already built rather than how wide you went. Where Overrun pumps power and rewards a swarm of small bodies, this multiplies whatever damage your creatures were already going to deal: two large attackers connect like four, and a board of evasive threats simply hits twice. That makes it a finisher that inherits a board rather than one that constructs one. Sorcery speed and a heavier cost lock it into the attack step of a turn where you already have committed creatures on the table, so it punishes a stalled board state instead of building toward one. It is a precommitted alpha strike, not the surprise an instant-speed trick provides during a single block. The grant also compounds in two quieter ways: first-strike damage from these creatures resolves before regular damage, so deathtouch bodies clear blockers and then survive the swing, and any creature with a damage-triggered ability fires twice. What you spend buys the conversion of an existing board into a one-turn kill rather than a two-turn grind, and the card lives or dies on the quality of the board it walks into.

Cleaver Riot (m13)
M13 · #125uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.07
Foil: $0.25
Oracle Text

Rules text

Creatures you control gain double strike until end of turn. (They deal both first-strike and regular combat damage.)
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
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
N/A
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