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Plummet

Instant1 generic manaGreen mana

Green has never been allowed to kill a creature on the ground, but it has always been allowed to swat anything in the air, and this is the cleanest expression of that rule. The color's removal is gated by a permission structure as old as the game: you may answer fliers, fatties (via fight), and artifacts and enchantments, but a vanilla 2/2 standing in your way is somebody else's problem. By restricting the target to creatures with flying, the design hands green an unconditional kill spell at instant speed without violating that boundary, since the thing being destroyed is, by definition, the thing green is permitted to destroy. The two-mana cost and lack of any rider make it a deliberately plain answer; there is no card draw, no life gain, no reach attached, because the whole point is to give green a no-frills response to the one threat type it is supposed to handle well. It sits in a long line of conditional green removal that trades flexibility for efficiency, from Hurricane's mass air-clear to the various reach-granting blockers that solve the same problem on the battlefield rather than the stack. The instant timing is what earns its keep: held up across a turn, it punishes an opponent who commits an evasive finisher and turns a dead-on-board green deck into one that can answer the exact threat its creatures cannot block.

Plummet (m20)
M20 · #188common
Pricing
Normal: $0.05
Foil: $0.11
Oracle Text

Rules text

Destroy target creature with flying.
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
Legal
Pauper Commander
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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