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Fire Servant

Creature — Elemental3 generic manaRed manaRed mana

Doubling effects usually live on artifacts or in colorless utility slots, where any deck can plug them in: this one ties the multiplier to a fragile red body and to one specific kind of spell. The clause does no work in combat and nothing for creatures; it only multiplies the damage from your red instants and sorceries, which means the card is asking you to already have a burn-spell density worth doubling before it earns its five mana. That is the tension it sits inside. A 4/3 for that cost is unremarkable on its own, and the ability is inert without a spellslinger shell around it, but the moment a single red removal spell or a face-aimed burn finisher resolves while this is in play, the math changes shape: every point of damage you were going to deal becomes two. The lineage is the recurring "red damage doubler" template that turns a deck's existing burn count into a kill spell rather than a removal spell. The structural weakness is obvious and intentional: it is a creature, so it dies to everything a creature dies to, and it only pays off across the turns it survives. You spend a turn deploying a body whose ability waits on the spells still in your hand, then bet that your opponent cannot remove it before you cash in the burn you were already going to cast.

Fire Servant (pd2)
PD2 · #15uncommon
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Oracle Text

Rules text

If a red instant or sorcery spell you control would deal damage, it deals double that damage instead.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
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
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
N/A
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