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Crucible of Fire

Enchantment3 generic manaRed mana

The tribal anthem in its most literal form, and one with no dial to turn: the buff feeds Dragons and nothing else, written into the card rather than chosen at deckbuild. That single-type lock is the whole bargain. The +3/+3 is enormous by anthem standards (most static team-pumps land at +1/+1 or +2/+2 and reach a whole color or board), and the price of that aggression is the narrowest possible scope. This does nothing in a deck that does not commit hard to one wing, and it is dead the moment you have no Dragons on the battlefield. The brittleness is what buys the size. Dragons happen to be a good vessel for a bonus this large because they already arrive as expensive, evasive bodies: turning a 5/5 flier into an 8/8 flier, or stacking copies to clear realistic blockers, converts a board that was already ahead into one that ends the game in a swing. Where a named-type lord is a creature you can answer with removal, this applies its math from the enchantment slot, harder to interact with and live the moment it resolves. It is a build-around with no half-measures: the payoff scales precisely with how much of the deck you were willing to bend toward a single creature type.

Crucible of Fire (c17)
C17 · #133rare
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Dragon creatures you control get +3/+3.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
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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