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Dire Fleet Daredevil

Creature — Human Pirate1 generic manaRed mana

Snapcaster Mage proved that recasting an instant or sorcery off a body was worth building around; this is the red, predatory inversion of that idea. Instead of buying back your own spell from your own graveyard, the daredevil reaches into an opponent's bin and steals what they have already used. The mana-of-any-type clause is what makes the theft live: it lets you cast a card outside red's color identity, so a countered Cryptic Command or a spent Path to Exile becomes ammunition red has no business holding. The replacement rider seals the transaction: the stolen spell is exiled instead of going to a graveyard from anywhere it would, so even if the cast is countered you never hand it back, and the opponent never recurs it. Two restrictions pay for the larceny. The trigger only fires on enter, so the target has to already be sitting in a graveyard the moment the Pirate lands, and the spell must be cast that turn or it is lost. That bolts the effect to graveyards rich enough to be worth raiding, and rewards a deck patient enough to land this with a juicy target waiting. The first-strike 2/1 body is incidental: a fragile attacker that mostly justifies the card seeing combat at all. What carries it is the reversal of the graveyard-recursion premise, turning an opponent's spent resources into your own.

Dire Fleet Daredevil (lcc)
LCC · #223rare
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Oracle Text

Rules text

First strike When this creature enters, exile target instant or sorcery card from an opponent's graveyard. You may cast it this turn, and mana of any type can be spent to cast that spell. If that spell would be put into a graveyard, exile it instead.
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
Legal
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