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Hardened Berserker

Creature — Human Berserker2 generic manaRed mana

The cost reduction here is shaped to chain. Attack, and the next spell you cast that turn comes down a generic mana cheaper, which puts the discount at its best when there's a second play waiting behind combat: another creature onto the board, a burn spell aimed at the blocker, a pump effect that turns a trade into a kill. The 3/2 body is built to die, not to dominate, so the reduction is the real payload, and it only fires when the card does the dangerous thing aggressive red wants anyway: turning sideways into open mana. The friction is timing. The trigger happens on the declaration of the attack, before blocks, so you commit to the swing and the follow-up with imperfect information, and the discount evaporates if you have nothing worth casting that turn. It rewards a hand stocked with cheap follow-ups and punishes a topdeck war. As a piece of aggressive-deck engineering, it belongs to a small line of attackers that subsidize the rest of the turn rather than just hitting for damage: the creature is a payment plan, spending its fragile body to make everything after it land a little harder.

Hardened Berserker (dtk)
DTK · #139common
Pricing
Normal: $0.02
Foil: $0.01
Oracle Text

Rules text

Whenever this creature attacks, the next spell you cast this turn costs 1 generic mana less to cast.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
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
N/A
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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