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Morgue Burst

Sorcery4 generic manaBlack manaRed mana

Six mana to recur a creature and convert its power into burn is the kind of two-for-one a Rakdos sacrifice deck draws up on a napkin: the same dead body that gave you value in the graveyard comes back to hand and throws a Lightning Bolt's worth of damage (or much more) on the way out. The design ties the spell's payoff directly to your reanimation target, so it scales with whatever you most wanted back: a fat finisher returns and doubles as removal or reach, while a fragile utility creature pays you a modest return. That coupling is also the limit. At sorcery speed and six mana, it is too slow to function as interaction in any tight sense; it wants a graveyard already stocked with a high-power body, which means it is a payoff card and not an engine, rewarding a deck that was filling its yard for other reasons. The result is a value top-end for grindy black-red builds rather than a tempo play: the work has to be done before you cast it, and then it pays you twice for the same corpse.

Morgue Burst (dgm)
DGM · #86common
Pricing
Normal: $0.05
Foil: $0.35
Oracle Text

Rules text

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. Morgue Burst deals damage to any target equal to the power of the card returned this way.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
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
Legal
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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