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Devouring Greed

Sorcery — Arcane2 generic manaBlack manaBlack mana

Every Spirit you sacrifice converts to two life swung in both directions, on top of a base two-point drain, which makes this a finisher built specifically for a Spirit-token engine: the kind of deck that floods the board with chump bodies and then needs a way to cash them in for something terminal. It belongs to an older tradition of converting a wide board into a lethal life swing, but the resource being spent here is the same tribe the deck is built around, so casting it is a deliberate endgame rather than incidental value. You are not discarding fodder you no longer want; you are closing the game by spending the army that got you there. Being Arcane lets it serve as a legal host for Splice onto Arcane, so a deck running those payload spells can graft extra effects onto the cast as the capstone of a multi-spell turn. The mirrored numbers (you lose-them-life, you gain-the-same) give the spell two faces: a race-stabilizer when you are behind and a kill when you are ahead, with the only variable being how many Spirits you can afford to part with at the moment of casting.

Devouring Greed (chk)
CHK · #110common
Pricing
Normal: $0.15
Foil: $1.25
Oracle Text

Rules text

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may sacrifice any number of Spirits. Target player loses 2 life plus 2 life for each Spirit sacrificed this way. You gain that much life.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
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
Legal
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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