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Sawhorn Nemesis

Creature — Dinosaur3 generic manaRed mana

Damage doublers usually point at the caster: Furnace of Rath, Dictate of the Twin Gods, all the effects that turn your own aggression up a notch and eat the symmetry as a cost. This one inverts the design. The doubling attaches to a chosen player and everything they control, and the choice happens as the Dinosaur enters, so it becomes a weapon you aim rather than a slope you stand on. That single-target framing rewrites how a burn spell reads: a three-damage bolt at the marked player is six, a board wipe hits their creatures twice, and a swing that would trade suddenly overkills. Nothing about the effect is symmetric, and that one-sidedness marks the break from the old two-sided Rath variants; the tax lands entirely on one seat, and it stacks with itself and with any other doubling in the game. The friction is that the 2/4 body has to survive on a board full of players who now have every reason to remove it, and the pointed nature of the choice invites exactly the retaliation a doubler wants to avoid. The interesting timing wrinkle is that the enter-choice is locked in immediately, before the table knows how the game will develop, so committing the Nemesis is a read on which opponent you want dead rather than a reactive answer to who becomes threatening later.

Sawhorn Nemesis (m3c)
M3C · #112rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.39
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Oracle Text

Rules text

As this creature enters, choose a player. If a source would deal damage to the chosen player or a permanent they control, it deals double that damage instead.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
N/A
Historic
N/A
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
N/A
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
N/A
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