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Overpowering Attack

Sorcery3 generic manaRed manaRed mana

Extra combat spells have always priced their explosiveness in raw mana, because the payoff is a full second attack step: Aggravated Assault sits at four with a mana-rock rebuy, Seize the Day leans on flashback, Relentless Assault set the baseline back when doubling your attacks was a red mage's win condition. What the freerunning clause does here is restructure that price around a combat trigger rather than a mana engine. Cast at full cost, this is a slow, expensive Relentless Assault variant that also untaps every creature that attacked. But connect earlier in the turn with the right attacker and the effect drops to three mana, converting a single point of damage into a discounted second swing: attack, deal damage, then in your post-combat main phase freerun into an additional combat phase and an additional main phase. This is still a sorcery, so the whole sequence lives inside your own main-phase timing; the freerunning cost buys a price break, not a change in speed, and it grants exactly one extra combat per cast. The untap-all clause is what keeps that second combat from being empty, since a fresh attack step is worthless if your creatures are still tapped from the first. The mana value of five is a decoy: the design intends the card to be paid for with combat damage, not lands, which reframes it from a top-end payoff into a mid-turn continuation. It is a doubling spell that asks you to prove you already hit before it hands you the next swing.

Overpowering Attack (acr)
ACR · #218uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $1.15
Foil: $1.18
Oracle Text

Rules text

Freerunning 2 generic manaRed mana (You may cast this spell for its freerunning cost if you dealt combat damage to a player this turn with an Assassin or commander.) Untap all creatures you control that attacked this turn. If it's your main phase, there is an additional combat phase after this phase, followed by an additional main phase.
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
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
N/A
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