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The Battle of Bywater

Sorcery1 generic manaWhite manaWhite mana

The threshold is the whole trick: three power sets the cut, so the wrath sweeps the beefy midrange threats and game-ending fatties while leaving your mana dorks, one-drop utility bodies, and tokens standing on the other side. That asymmetry is the design lever most one-sided wraths pay for with a color-of-creature restriction or a devotion clause; here it's a flat power line, which means the survivors are exactly the small pieces white weenie and go-wide decks want to keep. Then the second clause turns those survivors into value: a Food for each creature you still control, so the more of your board that ducked the sweep, the deeper the life buffer you bank. Sequencing is doing real work. Because it counts creatures after the destruction resolves, you get paid for every two-power attacker and utility body you deliberately kept under the bar, which flips the usual sweeper math on its head. Most wraths ask you to weigh whether your own side is worth losing; this one asks you to build a deck whose threats sit below three power, then hands you a stack of sacrificial life gain for doing so. The Food tokens are slow and clunky on their own, but they are the honest price of a board wipe that leaves your half of the battlefield mostly intact.

The Battle of Bywater (ltr)
LTR · #346rare
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Destroy all creatures with power 3 or greater. Then create a Food token for each creature you control. (It's an artifact with "2 generic mana, Tap, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.")
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
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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