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Hidetsugu, Devouring Chaos

Legendary Creature — Ogre Demon3 generic manaBlack mana

Here is an ogre demon that lives at the seam between two engines that most cards keep apart. The first half is a black sacrifice outlet that filters, converting spare creatures into scry depth; the second is a red impulse-draw activation that also turns your top card into a burn spell, throwing damage equal to the exiled nonland's mana value at anything. The tension is what makes the build sing: the scry ability sets up the pile so the exile ability sees a live card, so the two halves are the same loop viewed from either color. Sacrifice to smooth, exile to profit, and the higher the mana value on top, the harder the hit. That reward structure quietly pushes you toward heavier spells than you would normally run, since a fetched-away creature or expensive bomb doubles as a Fireball you did not cast. What holds the card back from pure combo is the honesty of its rate: the exile activation costs mana and taps the body, so the damage is not free reach so much as tempo you have to schedule. It is a legend built for a Rakdos deck that wants to bleed advantage from an empty board, a self-sufficient value piece that fixes its own draws and closes the game with the resources other cards discard.

Oracle Text

Rules text

Black mana, Sacrifice a creature: Scry 2. 2 generic manaRed mana, Tap: Exile the top card of your library. You may play that card this turn. When you exile a nonland card this way, Hidetsugu deals damage equal to the exiled card's mana value to any target.
Legalities

Format Status

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

Other printings

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