Fling

The conversion of a creature's power into a burst of damage at instant speed, packaged so cheaply that the body itself becomes a delivery system. Everything turns on the sacrifice timing: the creature is already paid for, already on the board, and the spell trades it away for its current power, exactly as it stands at the moment of sacrifice, including every aura, equipment, and pump spell stacked on it. That window is the whole point. A blocked attacker, a creature about to die to removal, a token swelled by a combat trick: all of it can be cashed in at the instant before the loss would otherwise be wasted, and the instant-speed cast dodges the sorcery-speed sweepers and sacrifice triggers that would eat the creature for free. The effect predates a long line of imitators that narrow or condition the same trick: some restrict the target, some keep the creature, some scale the damage differently. This is the unconditional version, and that is precisely why it has stayed relevant for as long as creatures have been worth more dead than alive. It rewards the deck that has already built a threat too big to attack profitably, then turns that threat sideways into the face. The card asks one question of every board state: is this creature worth more as a body or as a number? When the answer is the number, nothing does it more bluntly.