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Death by Dragons

Sorcery4 generic manaRed manaRed mana

Pure political theater, with the snub doing all the work. Six mana hands a 5/5 flier to everyone at the table except one chair, and the omission is the entire mechanism: you are not arming your friends so much as nominating the player who suddenly stands alone with no air defense while everyone else has a Dragon and a fresh reason to point it somewhere. The caster gets one too, so long as you aren't the target yourself (the text reads "each player other than target player"), so this is not selfless charity; it is redirected aggression with a board for yourself attached. The snub is the negotiation. This sits in a thin tradition of group-game cards whose real text lives in the table talk rather than the type line: the strongest play is often to let it rest on the stack and watch everyone recalculate who is exposed and who owes whom. Aim it at your sole opponent in a duel and the spell collapses into a single 5/5 flier for six mana that comes home to you: not a self-own, just a dismal rate, and a clear tell about intent. The design wants three or more chairs, where giving away free 5/5s is a lever for steering politics rather than a gift, and it has never wanted to leave the casual multiplayer context it was built for.

Death by Dragons (cma)
CMA · #80uncommon
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Each player other than target player creates a 5/5 red Dragon creature token with flying.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
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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