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Professional Face-Breaker

Creature — Human Warrior2 generic manaRed mana

Combat aggression and card advantage usually pull red decks in opposite directions: the harder you attack, the faster you run the hand dry. This body collapses that tension into a loop. Connect with a creature and you bank a Treasure; the token can ramp or fix, but its sharpest use is the sacrifice ability, which converts a mana rock into an impulse-draw. Because the exile-and-play clause is an activated ability rather than a spell, it fires at instant speed, but the "this turn" duration fences that window hard: whatever you exile has to be cast or played before the turn ends, so cracking a Treasure on an opponent's turn commits you to playing off it right then. The reward lines up cleanly on your own turn, when a fresh card meets untapped mana. That accounting is what the whole design turns on. Each combat step becomes a resource you can spend now on tempo or stockpile for a later burst, forcing you to price your own attacks against your mana. Menace does the enabling work, shoving damage through defenders so the engine keeps ticking rather than stalling behind a chump blocker. Red has a long line of attack-to-draw payoffs, but where earlier ones handed you the card directly, this one launders the reward through an artifact resource you generate on the swing and spend on your own clock.

Professional Face-Breaker (snc)
SNC · #116rare
Pricing
Normal: $6.33
Foil: $7.22
Oracle Text

Rules text

Menace Whenever one or more creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, create a Treasure token. Sacrifice a Treasure: Exile the top card of your library. You may play that card this turn.
Legalities

Format Status

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

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