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Swarming of Moria

Sorcery2 generic manaRed mana

Amass builds a single growing threat, piling counters onto one Army over repeated casts. It rewards patience and repetition, the antithesis of red's burn-it-down instinct. So the interesting choice here is to sit that mechanic beside a Treasure, the currency of ramp and ritual mana, in a color that already prints Treasure freely but rarely pairs it with a persistent board. The combination is the point: the Treasure smooths mana toward a splash or an artifact payoff while the Orc Army keeps accruing, so a single sorcery advances two axes at once, developing a creature and banking a card of ramp. What keeps the rate modest is that neither half is large. Two counters is a small tick, and one Treasure is a single deferred mana, so the spell asks to be cast several times before it means much. That repetition is the design's actual demand: it wants a deck built to churn through cheap red sorceries, where each copy nudges an Orc Army toward lethal while dripping artifacts into a sacrifice engine or a spellslinger count. The Orc typing is the quiet hinge, tying both the Army and the deck to a tribe red has been seeding across sets. On its own it is a small spell; as a repeated line in an aggregate plan, it buys two effects a monocolor deck usually has to spend separate cards on.

Swarming of Moria (ltr)
LTR · #150common
Pricing
Normal: $0.21
Foil: $0.20
Oracle Text

Rules text

Create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "Tap, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.") Amass Orcs 2. (Put two +1/+1 counters on an Army you control. It's also an Orc. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Orc Army creature token first.)
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
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
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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