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Devouring Swarm

Creature — Insect1 generic manaBlack manaBlack mana

An evasive sacrifice outlet that turns its own dying allies into incremental reach. The fragility is the catch: a 2/1 with flying folds to almost any removal, and each creature you feed it only adds a single point until end of turn, so the pumps evaporate before they ever stack into a body the board has to answer. That makes it less a value engine than a tempo conversion: spend a creature that has already done its work (a chump blocker, a token, a creature that triggered something on the way out) and translate the leftover into a point of damage in the air. The flying is what makes the activation worth anything, because the +1/+1 buys nothing on a stalled ground; it only counts when the swing is already getting through, and one sacrifice nudges that swing by exactly one. It sits in the long line of black creatures that monetize the graveyard's intake rather than its output, asking you to value bodies as fuel before they hit the yard. Functional and narrow, entirely dependent on a steady supply of expendable creatures: without that pipeline, the activated ability sits idle and the card is just a small flier biding its time.

Devouring Swarm (j22)
J22 · #401common
Pricing
Normal: $0.15
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying Sacrifice a creature: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
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
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

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