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Savage Beating

Instant3 generic manaRed manaRed mana

Both halves end the game; the entwine cost is what makes the math criminal. Double strike alone turns every committed attacker into twice its printed power for one swing; the extra combat phase alone untaps your board and reswings into a defender who already spent their blocks. Pay the 1 generic manaRed mana entwine and you stack them: untap your creatures, give them double strike, then attack again into an opponent whose blockers may already be tapped or dead, with every creature now dealing combat damage twice. That is the line every all-in aggro shell and storm-adjacent combat deck was secretly built to reach, and it is why this lives in the kill column rather than the value column. The timing clause is what pays for those numbers: it can be cast only during combat on your turn, so it cannot be held as interaction, cannot ambush a blocker, cannot do anything outside the narrow window where you are already attacking. It is not a trick you keep up; it is a button you press when the board is already pointed at someone's face. The design lesson runs the other way from intuition: a combat-locked instant can carry power a sorcery never could, because the cost of that power is paid in inflexibility. You only ever cast Savage Beating in the exact game state where it wins, and never in any other.

Savage Beating (mar)
MAR · #26mythic
Pricing
Normal: $8.09
Foil: $13.83
Oracle Text

Rules text

Cast this spell only during combat on your turn. Choose one — • Creatures you control gain double strike until end of turn. • Untap all creatures you control. After this phase, there is an additional combat phase. Entwine 1 generic manaRed mana (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)
Legalities

Format Status

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