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Firespitter Whelp

Creature — Dragon2 generic manaRed mana

The Dragon typing here is doing quiet double duty. Most spells-matter creatures reward a single input: cast a noncreature spell, get a trigger. This one widens the tap by folding Dragons into the same clause, so a deck built around the body's tribe never stops firing the ping even when it's dumping fatties onto the board. That resolves the design tension cleanly: a spells payoff usually goes cold the moment you pivot to a creature-heavy curve, but a Dragon deck gets to keep the reach counter live by casting its own kind. The damage lands on each opponent rather than any target, which fixes it as an incremental reach engine instead of a removal outlet; it can't be pointed at a blocker or a planeswalker, only at faces. On a flying 2/2, the pressure is meant to compound: the evasive clock ticks in the air while every qualifying spell you cast chips away underneath it. What it wants is density, either enough cheap noncreature spells to justify the trigger or a critical mass of Dragons to give the tribal line a payoff, and it rewards whichever build commits harder. Left alone in a pile of unrelated cards it's just a small flier; slotted into a deck that respects one of its two input types, each cast becomes another point off the opponent's life total, and those points add up faster than the modest body suggests.

Firespitter Whelp (fdn)
FDN · #197uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.25
Foil: $0.33
Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying Whenever you cast a noncreature or Dragon spell, this creature deals 1 damage to each opponent.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
Legal
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
Legal
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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Other printings

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