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Thing Swing

Instant3 generic manaGreen mana

Fight spells make two creatures trade blows; this one takes the punch off entirely, letting your creature deal damage to an opponent's creature while sitting perfectly safe. The multiplier is the whole design axis: damage equal to twice your creature's power means a five-power creature bites for ten, and the effect scales with every counter, anthem, or oversized body you can point it at. That structure rewards exactly the kind of board green is best at building: creatures with power far outrunning their toughness, the sort that would lose an honest fight but win a lopsided one when the retaliation is removed from the equation. Green has always had a hole here, no clean answer to a single problem creature, and this routes around it through the power stat green is already good at inflating, then delivers the whole thing at instant speed, which fight-style removal in this color rarely gets. It can wait for an attacker to be declared, wait for a blocker to commit, or answer a threat on the opponent's turn when green normally has to pass and hope. The Hero cost reduction is what sets the price: bring a themed creature and you are paying two mana for scaling removal, skip it and you pay full freight for a green instant that green does not usually own. The constraint is the one every bite effect carries: no creature of your own means no spell, and the bigger yours is, the harder it lands.

Thing Swing (msc)
MSC · #564common
Pricing
Normal: $0.28
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Oracle Text

Rules text

This spell costs 2 generic mana less to cast if it targets a Hero you control. Target creature you control deals damage equal to twice its power to target creature an opponent controls.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
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
N/A
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