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Legions to Ashes

Sorcery1 generic manaWhite manaBlack mana

The clause that makes this earn its keep is the token rider. Exile-based removal that hits any nonland permanent is a known quantity: Vindicate and its descendants have covered the "answer anything they control" job for two colors for a long time. What this adds is a solution to the problem that answer historically ignored, the go-wide token board that turns one threat into a dozen. Kill the source and the copies remain; here, exiling a token also removes every other token sharing its exact name, so one clean cast can clear an entire swarm of identically named bodies at once. That reframes the spell from single-target removal into a targeted sweeper against anything that duplicates itself into an army of matched copies, from a wide field of Soldiers to a stack of Zombies made off the same trigger. The rider is precise, though: it keys off name, so tokens that merely share a maker with your target (an assortment of differently named spawns, or the creatures an anthem happens to be pumping) are untouched unless you target the token itself. The restriction paying for all this is that it only touches permanents an opponent controls, so it never doubles as a value tool for cleaning up your own board, and it stays at sorcery speed, meaning it answers a developed board rather than a spell on the stack. It is a Vindicate that learned to count matching tokens.

Legions to Ashes (bro)
BRO · #215rare
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Normal: $0.26
Foil: $0.36
Oracle Text

Rules text

Exile target nonland permanent an opponent controls and all tokens that player controls with the same name as that permanent.
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
Legal
Printings elsewhere

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