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Kessig Flamebreather

Creature — Human Shaman1 generic manaRed mana

Every spellslinger deck wants a body that turns its instants and sorceries into a clock, and this is the archetype's most literal expression: each noncreature spell you cast pings all opponents for one, no colors matched, no targets to fizzle. The trigger keys off the cast, not the resolution, so even a spell your opponent counters still deals its damage. The 1/3 frame is the load-bearing part of the design. Guttersnipe at 2 generic manaRed mana throws two damage but rides a fragile 2/2 that dies to almost any incidental burn; this trades that reach for durability, sitting behind a three-toughness wall that shrugs off the small blockers and one-damage effects that would otherwise clear it. The tradeoff is real: a single point per spell is a slow drain, so the card rewards a deck already built to chain cheap noncreature spells rather than one hoping to close on a single turn. It hits each opponent independently, which scales the payoff upward in multiplayer without a word of text changing. And it never argues with your gameplan: cantrips, removal, protection pieces, and rituals all count equally, so it asks nothing of what your spells target or whether they even resolve. Where earlier spell-count creatures like Kiln Fiend wanted to attack, converting their triggers into combat damage, this one keeps its damage attached to the cast and turns a durable defensive body into inevitability.

Kessig Flamebreather (vow)
VOW · #164common
Pricing
Normal: $3.19
Foil: $7.73
Oracle Text

Rules text

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature deals 1 damage to each opponent.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
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
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

1 set
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