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Orcish Vandal

Creature — Orc Warrior1 generic manaRed mana

A repeating Shrapnel Blast with a tax baked in: the body is fragile, each shot eats an artifact, and the tap caps you at one activation per turn. That arithmetic is the entire proposition. In a shell flush with cheap, disposable artifacts (Servos, Treasures, leftover equipment, anything that already wants to die for value), a 1/1 that converts each one into two damage aimed anywhere becomes a slow but relentless drain on creatures and faces alike. It rewards a sacrifice deck that was going to throw its trinkets away regardless; bolt it to a board that needs its artifacts to stay put and you have a vanilla two-drop clutching a dagger it can never afford to draw. Where most artifact payoffs pay you a fixed amount as the permanent leaves (a Reckless Fireweaver ping, a scavenge trigger), this one is itself the sacrifice engine: the artifact does not need a death trigger of its own, because the Orc supplies the outlet and the reach in a single tap. Its output is gated only by how many tokens you can manufacture and by that once-per-turn clock, which makes it function less as a combatant than as a mana-free pinger perched on top of whatever artifact-generation engine sits behind it. The ceiling is dictated not by the 1/1 frame but by the deck wrapped around it.

Orcish Vandal (2xm)
2XM · #137common
Pricing
Normal: $0.16
Foil: $0.15
Oracle Text

Rules text

Tap, Sacrifice an artifact: This creature deals 2 damage to any target.
Legalities

Format Status

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

Other printings

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