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Coordinated Clobbering

SorceryGreen mana

Fight spells have always answered a strategic question that ordinary removal ignores: how do you kill something using creatures you already paid for, without spending a card on burn? This one refines the pattern by decoupling the two combatants. Where a standard fight makes your creature both attacker and target (and dead if it loses the exchange), this points your damage outward only: your creatures deal their power to an opponent's creature and take nothing back. That one-directional design is what pays for the single green mana. It cannot be used as a Prey Upon-style trade; it is pure removal that happens to be routed through your board, and it turns a mono-green deck's incidental power (a mana dork here, a token there) into a kill spell. The two-creature clause is the wrinkle worth planning around: stacking two small bodies onto one target lets you clear something no single attacker could, and because the damage is dealt simultaneously by each creature to the same target, you are effectively adding power counters together against one toughness number. The cost is that both creatures tap, so you are committing your combat step's worth of pressure to a sorcery-speed removal spell before you know what the opponent draws. It is a green deck's way of buying a damage-based creature kill with mana it was going to sink into bodies anyway.

Coordinated Clobbering (dsk)
DSK · #173uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.16
Foil: $0.17
Oracle Text

Rules text

Tap one or two target untapped creatures you control. They each deal damage equal to their power to target creature an opponent controls.
Legalities

Format Status

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