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Pitiless Fists

Enchantment — Aura3 generic manaGreen mana

Green's fight removal carries a hidden liability: the creature you point at their board takes back everything it deals, so trading a fragile attacker into something big usually means losing the fight along with the removal. Stapling the effect to an Aura that also grants +2/+2 dissolves that tension in a single motion. The fight resolves on entry, when the enchanted creature is already two power larger, so the removal and the survival math are one event: the buff wins the exchange rather than a separate trick you have to hold up. That timing is what the card is built around. A bare fight spell demands a body already large enough to eat what you name; this one supplies the size itself, letting a two- or three-power creature clear a blocker and keep the extra bulk stapled on afterward. The Aura framing is also the bill. Every board wipe and spot-removal spell in the game punishes you for sinking a resource into a creature you then lose, but here the fight has already happened, so the two-for-one risk is front-loaded instead of lingering; the +2/+2 still evaporates the instant the host dies. That is the compromise the design lands on: it wants the enchanted creature swinging the turn it arrives, folding a removal spell and a combat trick into a single tempo swing rather than banking a threat you plan to keep around.

Pitiless Fists (ecl)
ECL · #187uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.16
Foil: $0.19
Oracle Text

Rules text

Enchant creature you control When this Aura enters, enchanted creature fights up to one target creature an opponent controls. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.) Enchanted creature gets +2/+2.
Legalities

Format Status

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