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Midnight Mayhem

Sorcery2 generic manaRed manaWhite mana

Four mana for three 1/1 bodies is a poor rate on its face, which is why the token line is the least interesting part of this card: the payload is the three keywords stapled to every Gremlin you already control. In one sorcery, a static go-wide board becomes an alpha strike that dodges chump blocks (menace), gains life on connection (lifelink), and swings the turn it resolves (haste). The sorcery-speed restriction is what pays for that: this is an offensive button, pressed on your own turn when you have a board to leverage, not an instant-speed ambush you hold up on defense. Its effect wants a specific tribal density that most decks will not have organically, so the three tokens do double duty, seeding the Gremlin count the buff cares about while joining the swing themselves as menacing, lifelinking, hasty attackers. That makes the card most honest as a finisher rather than a curve-filler: it wants a stalled or building board full of Gremlins to convert into a lethal, life-swinging attack in a single main phase. Red-white's history with team-pump finishers is long, but most of that lineage buffs by creature type broadly or grants a single evergreen keyword; bundling three keywords onto a narrow tribe, then adding fodder to feed it, is the wrinkle here. The ceiling is real when the tribe is present; the floor is three haste attackers with menace and lifelink and little else to amplify them, and the gap between those outcomes is entirely a deckbuilding question.

Midnight Mayhem (dsk)
DSK · #222uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.07
Foil: $0.14
Oracle Text

Rules text

Create three 1/1 red Gremlin creature tokens. Gremlins you control gain menace, lifelink, and haste until end of turn. (A creature with menace can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
Legalities

Format Status

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