Imodane, the Pyrohammer
Single-target burn has always paid a tax for its precision: aim a Lightning Bolt at a creature and that damage is spent, walled off from the opponent's life total. This body rewrites that contract. Whenever an instant or sorcery you control lands its damage on one creature, that same amount echoes to each opponent's face, and the removal you were already casting becomes a clock. The trigger's boundaries are precise and load-bearing: the spell must target only a single creature, and the spell itself must be the source of the damage. A sweeper that hits everything does nothing; a spell splitting damage across two targets falls outside the trigger; and a fight or bite effect, where the creature deals the damage rather than the spell, never registers. The card wants surgical burn, not scattershot and not combat proxies. Because the redirection scales with whatever the spell dealt rather than a fixed number, a doubled or boosted burn payload arrives at the opponent at full size. The 4/4 for four is deliberately unremarkable because the body is not the payoff; it is the delivery vehicle that survives long enough for the spells to start doubling up. It sits in a line of red commanders that convert efficient interaction into inevitability (Torbran bends damage numbers upward, Zada fans a single spell across a board), but the angle here is narrower and meaner: every point of removal you spend clearing a blocker gets paid again, straight to the pilot.



