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Piercing Exhale

Instant1 generic manaGreen mana

A bite spell that pays a dividend to Dragon decks without ever asking them to spend a Dragon. The green core is familiar: point your creature's power at something and blow it up, one-sided, no return damage. What reframes it is the additional cost. Behold a Dragon (either reveal one from hand or gesture at one already in play) and the removal comes stapled to a surveil 2. The clause is a deck-identity check disguised as a cost: it never consumes the Dragon, so whether you reveal one from hand or point to one in play, it stays available to satisfy the same requirement again next turn. Anyone can cast the bite; the graveyard-shaping and card selection are reserved for players actually running the tribe, and they get it for free once the reveal is met. That is the interesting move here, gating an upside behind proof-of-archetype rather than a hard resource payment or a life cost. It reads cleanly at instant speed in both modes: a plain combat ambush when you have nothing to reveal, and, when you do, a removal spell that also digs, smoothing the next draw and stocking the graveyard while spending exactly one card. The surveil is selection, not advantage; the trade is still one-for-one, just a cleaner one. The card scales less with mana and more with commitment, a quieter way of rewarding a build-around than most tribal payoffs bother with.

Piercing Exhale (tdm)
TDM · #151common
Pricing
Normal: $0.11
Foil: $0.14
Oracle Text

Rules text

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may behold a Dragon. (You may choose a Dragon you control or reveal a Dragon card from your hand.) Target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to target creature or planeswalker. If a Dragon was beheld, surveil 2.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
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
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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