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Space Marine Devastator

Creature — Astartes Warrior3 generic manaWhite mana

The two mechanics here are pulling in the same direction, and that coherence is the design's whole point. Squad turns a single cast into a scalable wave of bodies by paying the two-mana tax as many times as your mana allows, and Grav-cannon fires an artifact-or-enchantment destruction trigger on each entry. Because every token created by Squad is a copy that also enters the battlefield, each copy carries its own Grav-cannon trigger: pay the tax three times and you are not just deploying four 3/3s, you are stacking four separate destroy-up-to-one-target instructions. That converts a narrow single-target removal effect into a repeatable board-wide answer scaled by the mana you sink in, which is a clean way to give white a flexible artifact-and-enchantment sweeper without printing an actual Disenchant-on-a-stick. The "up to one" wording matters: with no legal targets the triggers simply do nothing, so the card never strands itself when the opposing board is clean, and the tokens still land. It is a straightforward expression of white's rank-and-file identity (many small soldiers, incidental disruption) built so that the more you commit, the more the disruption compounds. The Astartes flavor and the go-wide math line up exactly: a Devastator squad is meant to arrive in numbers and delete hardware, and the rules text does precisely that.

Space Marine Devastator (40k)
40K · #14★rare
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Squad 2 generic mana (As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may pay 2 generic mana any number of times. When this creature enters, create that many tokens that are copies of it.) Grav-cannon — When this creature enters, destroy up to one target artifact or enchantment.
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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