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Devils' Playground

Sorcery4 generic manaRed manaRed mana

Six mana for four bodies that each promise a point of damage when they die: the math is the whole proposition here, and it works only because the damage is detached from combat. Those four Devils are not really creatures you attack with so much as four pings sitting in stasis, waiting for a sacrifice outlet, a board wipe, or a bad block to cash them in. That deferral shapes how the card wants to be played. A token-maker that just put four 1/1s on the table would be a clumsy go-wide piece at this cost; the death trigger turns the tokens into ammunition the opponent cannot profitably trade with, since killing a Devil pays you the point anyway. The friction is the price tag. Six mana at sorcery speed is a steep ask for a board that is fragile to any sweeper, and the payoff is gated behind your ability to actually trigger the deaths on your terms rather than the opponent's. Where it lands is in decks built to throw bodies away on purpose: aristocrats shells that want the death triggers, sacrifice engines that want the fodder, anything that treats four expendable creatures plus four floating points of reach as a single closing burst. Outside that structure it is a slow, expensive token spell. Inside it, it is a one-card payload.

Devils' Playground (psoi)
PSOI · #151srare
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Create four 1/1 red Devil creature tokens. They have "When this token dies, it deals 1 damage to any target."
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
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
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