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Rabid Bite

Sorcery1 generic manaGreen mana

Green's removal has always killed through power rather than around it, and this card turns that constraint into its whole engine: your creature's power becomes the reach of the spell. A stalled board with a 6/6 on it suddenly has six damage to point somewhere at sorcery speed, while a board with nothing bigger than a 2/2 has nothing worth casting this for. That dependency is the design. The damage is dealt one-sidedly: only your creature deals damage, so it stays at full health and takes nothing back. That is what separates the bite template from the older fight template, where both creatures deal damage to each other and you risk losing your own creature in the exchange. Prey Upon is the fight version of this idea; this is the version that stripped the symmetry out by denying the opponent's creature any return blow. The sorcery-speed limit is the price of that safety, since instant-speed access would turn green into a removal-rich tempo color. Instead you commit on your own turn with your creatures already in play, and the opponent gets a window to sacrifice or bounce the target before the damage lands. You don't get to destroy a creature outright; you point your biggest one at a smaller one and end it for two mana.

Rabid Bite (m19)
M19 · #195common
Pricing
Normal: $0.18
Foil: $0.35
Oracle Text

Rules text

Target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to target creature you don't control.
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
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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