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Hagra Diabolist

Creature — Ogre Shaman Ally4 generic manaBlack mana

The reward for going wide. Ally decks are built around a board that grows in steps, each new body retriggering whatever the rest of the team cares about, and this is the payoff that points all that incremental growth at a face. The math is the hook: every Ally that enters costs the target life equal to your full Ally count, so the same trigger that nicks a player for one early swells to a five- or six-point hit by the time the board has filled out. It compounds with itself in a way most reach effects do not, because each arrival both raises the count and fires the loss again. The 3/2 body is incidental; nobody runs this to attack with it. It exists to convert a tribal go-wide plan into life loss that ignores blockers entirely, exactly the close a creature-heavy deck otherwise has trouble finding. The "target player" clause is the quiet restraint: it cannot rake an entire multiplayer table the way an "each opponent" version would, but it lets the loss land wherever it does the most damage. The catch is structural: with the team off the table the trigger drains only a single point when it enters alone, so the card has little value as a standalone threat and only comes alive once the board has been committed to in full.

Hagra Diabolist (zen)
ZEN · #95uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.32
Foil: $1.70
Oracle Text

Rules text

Whenever this creature or another Ally you control enters, you may have target player lose life equal to the number of Allies you control.
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
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
N/A
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