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Dire-Strain Rampage

Sorcery1 generic manaRed manaGreen mana

The seam most readers miss is the "its controller" wording: this Stone Rain variant hands the ramp to whoever controlled the destroyed permanent, and in a green-red deck that owner is usually you. Point the destruction at your own excess land and you convert it into two tapped basics, a Harrow-style fixing burst dressed up as a removal spell. Point it at an opponent's artifact, enchantment, or land and the compensation clause becomes the price you pay: they get a basic or two, but they are down a mana rock, a game-warping enchantment, or a land they cannot always afford to lose. Green and red already handle noncreature permanents better than any other color pair, so the value here is not access but flexibility, one card that answers three permanent types and doubles as fixing when there is nothing to blow up. Flashback is what turns that flexibility into a resource. The same slot that shatters a problem permanent early returns from the graveyard to shatter the next one, or to ramp again, so a deck light on late-game interaction squeezes two effects out of a single card without diluting its threat count. The compensation rider is the cost that keeps a naturally swingy effect fair: destruction that also ramps would be free upside if the beneficiary were always the caster, so the card makes you choose whether the ramp lands on your side of the table or the other.

Dire-Strain Rampage (pmid)
PMID · #219prare
Pricing
Normal: $0.34
Foil: $0.24
Oracle Text

Rules text

Destroy target artifact, enchantment, or land. If a land was destroyed this way, its controller may search their library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Otherwise, its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Flashback 3 generic manaRed manaGreen mana
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
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

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