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Master of the Wild Hunt

Creature — Human Shaman2 generic manaGreen manaGreen mana

A four-mana 3/3 that builds its own army and then weaponizes it: every upkeep adds a 2/2 Wolf, and the tap ability folds the whole pack into a repeatable fight. The catch lives in the second half of the activation, the half players misread first. When the tapped Wolves deal their combined power to one creature, that creature deals damage back, but its controller decides how to divide it among the Wolves. The opponent, not you, gets to optimize the trade: they will rake the return damage across as many 2/2s as it takes to kill the most of them. So the ability is not the clean one-sided removal the raw numbers suggest. Three Wolves out points six damage at a single target, and the defender hands that target the right to scatter its retaliation and shred half your board in exchange. What keeps the engine alive is volume rather than safety. The longer the upkeep trigger fires, the more Wolves accumulate, and a wide enough pack can absorb the giveback and still kill on the spot, or simply attack as a swarm and let the fight ability be the threat that holds open the ground. It is a midrange grind card that wants the game to go long, generating its own resource and converting it into removal on demand, but the damage-division clause is a real tax, not a loophole: the price of pointing the pack at something is letting the opponent choose what it costs you.

Master of the Wild Hunt (j22)
J22 · #688mythic
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Oracle Text

Rules text

At the beginning of your upkeep, create a 2/2 green Wolf creature token. Tap: Tap all untapped Wolf creatures you control. Each Wolf tapped this way deals damage equal to its power to target creature. That creature deals damage equal to its power divided as its controller chooses among any number of those Wolves.
Legalities

Format Status

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