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Rabid Attack

Instant1 generic manaBlack mana

A trick built entirely around the sacrifice loop: instead of protecting your creatures, it prices out their deaths. The +1/+0 is almost incidental; the real payload is the temporary death trigger stapled onto any number of your creatures at once, which turns a board-wipe, a bad block, or a chump into a card-draw engine for a single turn. Instant-speed timing paired with the "any number of target creatures" clause is where the leverage lives: cast it in response to a sweeper and every creature about to die cashes in, converting an opponent's tempo swing into your fuel. Against a lethal alpha strike, it lets you trade wide and refill the same turn. The design sits at the intersection of aristocrats and wide aggro, rewarding a board already committed to dying: fodder tokens, expendable one-drops, sacrifice targets. The whole thing evaporates at end of turn, though, so it demands a window where creatures are actually going to die on your terms, not a durdling hold-open. That window is what stops a two-mana "draw a card for every creature that dies" effect from being oppressive: you have to earn the deaths, in the right turn, or the spell does almost nothing but hand out a modest attack step.

Rabid Attack (sos)
SOS · #96uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.19
Foil: $0.32
Oracle Text

Rules text

Until end of turn, any number of target creatures you control each get +1/+0 and gain "When this creature dies, draw a card."
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
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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
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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