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Deathbellow War Cry

Sorcery5 generic manaRed manaRed manaRed mana

Eight mana for a tribal tutor that skips the fetch-to-hand step entirely and drops four Minotaurs straight onto the battlefield: the reward is enormous, and the "different names" clause is the reason the payoff is allowed to be. Because the four creatures must be uniquely named, the effect scales with how deep the Minotaur pool actually runs rather than letting you assemble four copies of your single best body. That restriction turns the card from a redundancy engine into a diversity engine, forcing any deck built to abuse it to run a genuinely wide roster of playable Minotaurs. The sorcery speed and the triple-red back half seal the payoff into a specific slot: this is the top of a mono-red tribal curve, cast on a stabilized board as a game-ending swing, not a flexible tempo tool. Cheat-into-play tutors are a durable design lever (Kaalia of the Vast and Elvish Piper reach the same result through bodies and activations), but this one fires once, pays out all at once, and shuffles away with no engine left behind. The whole card lives on the honesty of that trade: the ceiling is four high-impact Minotaurs materialized in one shot, and the floor is a dead card in any deck that has not committed to the tribe hard enough to fill its library with distinct targets.

Deathbellow War Cry (thb)
THB · #294rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.98
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Search your library for up to four Minotaur creature cards with different names, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
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
N/A
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