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Magmaw

Creature — Elemental3 generic manaRed manaRed mana

There is no tap symbol, no once-per-turn line, no cap of any kind: the only throttle on this engine is one generic mana and a nonland permanent to feed it. That absence is the whole design. As long as expendable fodder remains and mana is open, the activation fires again, which makes this a converter rather than a finisher. It turns tokens, creatures with death triggers, or permanents that have already done their job into instant-speed pings, each small enough to look harmless and frequent enough to matter: a mana dork picked off, an attacker finished in combat, a planeswalker chipped down. The real value hides in the order of the cost. Because the sacrifice sits before the colon (part of the activation cost, not a triggered effect), an opponent never gets a window to remove the doomed creature in response. You can sandbag a body against targeted removal and still wring a damage out of it on the way out. What the design asks for in return is a board that manufactures disposable nonland permanents faster than the table can punish you for owning a flimsy 4/4 for five. The damage is trivial; the volume is the point. Feed it enough and the trickle becomes a hose.

Magmaw (ddp)
DDP · #62rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.11
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Oracle Text

Rules text

1 generic mana, Sacrifice a nonland permanent: This creature deals 1 damage to any target.
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
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
Printings elsewhere

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