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Fire Juggler

Creature — Goblin Shaman2 generic manaRed mana

A blocker punisher built on a coin flip you can rig. The combat math is brutal when it lands: four damage to every blocker means it trades up against almost anything that steps in front of it, and a gang block only feeds more creatures into the same spray. The catch is the clash, a mechanic that resolves not on a die roll but on whose top card has the greater mana value, which folds the deck around the card into part of the cost. A pile of cheap spells makes that comparison a real risk; a build that leans toward the top end edges it close to a guarantee, and you keep library control either way because clash lets each player choose top or bottom afterward. The asymmetry worth sitting with is what the threat actually buys. The trigger fires only when the attacker is blocked, so the card is dead against an opponent who declines to block and simply takes two. That makes it a deterrent rather than a lure: the projected 4-damage payoff exists to make blocking unattractive, taxing the defender's combat decisions and pushing damage through that a vanilla 2/2 would have eaten. The work the controlling player does is in the deckbuilding, knowing their own curve well enough that the random reveal favors them when an opponent does decide the block is worth the gamble. The body is unremarkable; everything interesting lives in the gap between the threat it projects and the deck required to back it.

Fire Juggler (mor)
MOR · #90common
Pricing
Normal: $0.10
Foil: $0.28
Oracle Text

Rules text

Whenever this creature becomes blocked, clash with an opponent. If you win, this creature deals 4 damage to each creature blocking it. (Each clashing player reveals the top card of their library, then puts that card on their choice of the top or bottom. A player wins if their card had a greater mana value.)
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
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
Legal
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