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Horrific Assault

SorceryGreen mana

The fight-spell family has always paid for its efficiency with symmetry: your creature deals damage, and takes some back. This one strips the return trip entirely. Your creature swings its power into a creature or planeswalker and never flinches, which turns any oversized attacker you already control into a one-mana removal spell that also keeps the body around to do it again next turn. That is a meaningful shift in the risk math of green removal, which has historically leaned on cards where your best creature has to survive a trade to earn the kill. Here it does not have to survive anything; it just points and fires. The planeswalker clause matters too, since green's answers to walkers have usually meant connecting in combat rather than a clean sorcery-speed shot. The Eldrazi rider is the tell about who this was built for: a small life buffer stapled on for decks already fielding colorless titans, where a huge power number and an incidental three life reward the same board you were assembling anyway. Outside that shell it is a lean, honest one-mana bite that scales with whatever your largest creature happens to be, and inside it, it is a removal spell that also pads your cushion.

Horrific Assault (mh3)
MH3 · #157common
Pricing
Normal: $0.22
Foil: $0.26
Oracle Text

Rules text

Target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to target creature or planeswalker you don't control. If you control an Eldrazi, you gain 3 life.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
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
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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