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Dorothea, Vengeful Victim // Dorothea's Retribution

Legendary Creature — Spirit // Enchantment — Aura

The self-sacrifice clause is doing something sneakier than it looks. A 4/4 flyer for two is a rate that ought to be punishing, so the design pays for it twice: Dorothea dies at end of combat whenever she attacks or blocks, meaning she is a one-swing threat that cannot hold the ground she takes. But the death is the point, not the cost, because disturb lets her return as the aura half and hand that same disappearing 4/4 flyer to another body every turn. The front side is a fragile beater; the back side is an engine that launders the fragility into a repeatable clock. Where most disturb creatures come back as a ghostly downgrade of their original body, Dorothea's Retribution flips to the Aura and keeps the aggression at full size: your enchanted creature now spawns and swings with a fresh 4/4 flier carrying the same end-of-combat sacrifice built in, so the loop never generates a permanent board, only pressure. Exiling the Aura rather than letting it die is the hard stop that keeps the whole thing from recurring further. Two cards for two casts, one of them cast from the graveyard, both aimed squarely at the red zone: a compact demonstration of how disturb can turn a deliberately self-destructing creature into a value line rather than a liability.

Dorothea, Vengeful Victim // Dorothea's Retribution (dbl)
DBL · #502rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.46
Foil: $1.73
Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying When Dorothea attacks or blocks, sacrifice it at end of combat. Disturb 1 generic manaWhite manaBlue mana (You may cast this card from your graveyard transformed for its disturb cost.) // Enchant creature Enchanted creature has "Whenever this creature attacks, create a 4/4 white Spirit creature token with flying that's tapped and attacking. Sacrifice that token at end of combat." If Dorothea's Retribution would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
N/A
Historic
N/A
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
N/A
TLR
Legal
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