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Dreadbore

SorceryBlack manaRed mana

The trade is the whole pitch: two mana for unconditional destruction of a creature or a planeswalker, paid for entirely by being a sorcery. Terminate had already established the Rakdos two-mana kill spell as a fixture, but it stopped at creatures and added a regeneration clause; this widens the target to planeswalkers and asks nothing in return except that you cast it on your own turn. That sorcery restriction is doing more work than it looks. The reason a clean, cheap, unconditional removal spell can read "creature or planeswalker" without warping every fair matchup is that it cannot answer a threat on the stack, cannot ambush an attacker, cannot be held up as interaction. You commit it proactively, and that timing window is the entire cost of its breadth. Against planeswalkers in particular the constraint matters: you cannot Dreadbore a walker the turn it lands in response to its first activation, so the card punishes a board state rather than a play. What it represents is the modern Rakdos design language fully formed: efficiency bought back not with a drawback printed in the text box, but with a phase restriction that quietly limits when efficiency is allowed to happen.

Dreadbore (gk2)
GK2 · #63rare
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Normal: $1.23
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Destroy target creature or planeswalker.
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

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