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Monstrous Emergence

Sorcery1 generic manaGreen mana

Green's fight spells have always asked you to put a creature in harm's way: Prey Upon, Pounce, Rabid Bite each route damage through combat math or a creature you already have on the board. This one severs the reciprocity and adds a second payment option that costs nothing but information. You can point the damage with a creature you control (the fight-adjacent mode, minus the counterattack), or you can simply reveal a fat creature from your hand and fire off its power as a burn spell while it stays in your grip. That reveal clause is the whole design conceit: it turns the biggest thing in your hand into removal without asking you to cast it, so a stranded seven-drop becomes seven damage at two mana and stays castable next turn. It is green's cleanest answer yet to the color's oldest weakness, which is killing a creature without trading bodies or waiting for a combat step it might lose. The tension is that both modes are only as good as your board or your hand: with nothing large to name, the card is dead, and the reveal telegraphs exactly what you are holding to an attentive opponent. But the ceiling scales with how top-heavy you build, which makes it a natural fit for ramp and reanimator shells that are flush with high-power creatures they cannot always afford to deploy.

Monstrous Emergence (dsk)
DSK · #191common
Pricing
Normal: $0.21
Foil: $0.23
Oracle Text

Rules text

As an additional cost to cast this spell, choose a creature you control or reveal a creature card from your hand. Monstrous Emergence deals damage equal to the power of the creature you chose or the card you revealed to target creature.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
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Modern
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Legacy
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Vintage
Legal
Commander
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Pauper
Legal
Brawl
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Historic
Legal
Alchemy
Legal
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
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Duel Commander
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Future Standard
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TLR
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