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Seismic Stomp

Sorcery1 generic manaRed mana

The Falter effect, stripped to its cheapest honest form. The job is singular: pull every grounded blocker out of the way for one swing, and let an aggressive board finish. What separates this from a true combat trick is what it surrenders to gain its breadth. It does not pump anything, it does not draw a card, it does not care which creatures attack: it simply revokes blocking from everything on the ground, including the caster's own non-flyers, which never matters because the caster is the one swinging. The type line is the leash. As a sorcery, it can only be cast in a main phase, never in response to the opponent's blocks, and because the effect lasts only "this turn," it has to fire on the same turn as the attack, before blockers are declared. That is the whole gap between a Falter like this and an instant-speed trick: the sorcery makes you decide on lethal before combat begins, rather than waiting for the opponent to misallocate blockers and punishing it after the fact. Flying still slips through, which is the deliberate seam in the design: a single airborne wall undoes the plan, so the effect rewards a ground game that is already winning and just needs the door held open for one swing. Plain, narrow, and exactly as wide as its mana suggests.

Seismic Stomp (plst)
PLST · #EMA-146common
Pricing
Normal: $0.23
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Creatures without flying can't block this turn.
Legalities

Format Status

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