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Diversion Specialist

Creature — Human Warrior3 generic manaRed mana

The sacrifice ability turns board presence into gas: for one mana and a creature or enchantment you no longer need (a token that has served its purpose, a one-drop that already got in for damage, an enchantment whose value has resolved), you exile the next card off your deck and get one turn to spend it. That trade tells you where the card belongs. It is a payoff for a wide, cheap deck already producing expendable bodies, built to keep drawing action when the fast start empties the hand, which is red aggro's oldest failure state. The rate stays honest because you pay in permanents, not life or cards: every dig taxes your own board, so the ability is only as strong as the fodder you can afford to feed it. Menace on a 4/3 is what keeps the clock running while the sacrifice loop rebuilds behind it. A body that demands two blockers presses damage even as the engine refills, so the card does both jobs in the same turn rather than choosing between them. Its ceiling scales directly with how much your deck was already throwing away; its floor is a menace attacker that trades combat pressure for extra cards when the hand runs dry.

Diversion Specialist (dsk)
DSK · #132uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.05
Foil: $0.09
Oracle Text

Rules text

Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.) 1 generic mana, Sacrifice another creature or enchantment: Exile the top card of your library. You may play it this turn.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
Legal
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
Legal
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
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