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Mass Diminish

Sorcery1 generic manaBlue mana

A single-player fog that never removes a creature, only rewrites the number. Instead of sweeping a board off the battlefield, it overwrites the base power and toughness of every creature one player controls to 1/1 until your next turn: the army is still there, still swinging, but it swings for one. The load-bearing choice is setting base stats rather than applying a minus-X penalty, which is why it scales against exactly the giant boards a mass shrink spell would struggle to catch. It does not care how large a creature was; it simply resets the floor. The important limitation is what that floor does not touch. Because base stats live in Layer 7b, any +X/+X effects and any counters apply on top of the new 1/1, whether they were placed before or after this resolves. Keywords and triggered abilities stay live too, so a trampling, flying, or deathtouch threat remains dangerous even at one power. This is arithmetic, not disarmament. The temporary duration is what the flashback answers: instead of a one-turn reprieve, you get two staggered windows, the second cast whenever the rebuilt team threatens again. And the aggressive line is the one worth learning: flatten a defender's blockers to 1/1 before your own oversized creatures attack, and a locked ground stall becomes lethal in a single combat step.

Mass Diminish (c19)
C19 · #10rare
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Normal: $1.58
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Until your next turn, creatures target player controls have base power and toughness 1/1. Flashback 3 generic manaBlue mana (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
N/A
Historic
N/A
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
N/A
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
Legal
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