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Dogpile

Instant3 generic manaRed mana

The damage scales with your committed attackers, which means this is a reward, not a removal spell: it only pays out for a board already invested in combat. Cast it on an empty turn and it does nothing; cast it during a wide swing and it doubles as a finisher that can clear a blocker, burn the opponent's face, or punish a defensive wall after they've decided how to allocate blocks. Four mana is steep for an instant whose floor is zero, and it asks the deck to be the go-wide aggressive shell that generates the bodies in the first place. The instant timing is where the math gets dangerous: you wait for blocks to be declared, watch the opponent commit defenders, then point the burn at a creature they thought was safe or at the player they thought was protected, all while your count of attackers is at its peak. This is one of red's attack-step payoffs, the effects that bill the swarm twice: once in combat damage, once in burn. The reward is real only when the board is real, and that conditional payout is what keeps a spell this open-ended from being a windmill-slam in every deck.

Dogpile (rav)
RAV · #120common
Pricing
Normal: $0.11
Foil: $0.48
Oracle Text

Rules text

Dogpile deals damage to any target equal to the number of attacking creatures you control.
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
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
N/A
Printings elsewhere

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