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Living End

Sorcery

The genius is that suspend turns a symmetric reset into a one-sided combo. Read the effect cold and it looks fair: both players empty their graveyards, both sacrifice their boards, both reanimate. The trick is in who has creatures to lose and who has a graveyard worth dumping. Build a deck whose threats only ever hit the bin (cycled, discarded, never cast) and the "sacrifice all creatures" clause costs you nothing while the "put all exiled cards onto the battlefield" clause hands you a board full of fatties at once. The opponent sacrifices a real board and reanimates an empty graveyard.

The other half of the design is the casting cost, which is no casting cost at all. The mana value of zero is honest: with no mana cost, the card cannot be cast from hand by ordinary means, and you are never meant to pay the suspend cost as written either. Instead you cast it straight from exile via cascade, resolving the sorcery for free as the trailing half of a two- or three-mana enabler like Violent Outburst or Shardless Agent. The interaction is the whole archetype: because Living End is the only spell in the deck cheaper than the cascade trigger, the cascade cannot whiff, and you fill the rest of the list with creatures that never want to be cast. The result is a reanimation strategy that needs no reanimation spell and a board wipe that only sweeps one side. Every choice in the list exists to bend a symmetric effect lopsided.

Living End (slp)
SLP · #30mythic
Pricing
Normal: $13.30
Foil: $295.76
Oracle Text

Rules text

Suspend 3—2 generic manaBlack manaBlack mana Each player exiles all creature cards from their graveyard, then sacrifices all creatures they control, then puts all cards they exiled this way onto the battlefield.
Legalities

Format Status

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