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Twinflame Tyrant

Creature — Dragon3 generic manaRed manaRed mana

Damage doublers usually attach the effect to burn (Fiery Emancipation) or to combat (Gratuitous Violence), but this one bolts the multiplier onto a Dragon and points it in exactly one direction: outward. The clause is deliberately asymmetric. It doubles anything a source you control deals to an opponent or an opponent's permanent, so combat, burn, ping abilities, and everything in between all suddenly hit twice as hard, while your own life total and board stay untouched by the arithmetic. That one-way valve is the design tension worth noticing: a symmetric doubler like Furnace of Rath would happily magnify the damage coming back at you, so it lives on a knife's edge; this card removes the downside entirely and pays for it with a body that is honest rather than dominant. A 3/5 flier is a real clock and a real blocker, but not a stat line that ends games on its own, so the multiplier wants damage sources already worth doubling rather than promising to be the whole plan. The window it cares about is any point a source you control connects, and because doubling scales linearly, the total gain is the same whether you are magnifying one big swing or a spread of small ones. Concentration is not the reward; volume is. The multiplier is a percentage bonus on a total you were going to inflict anyway, and it only earns its five mana in a shell built to inflict a lot.

Twinflame Tyrant (pfdn)
PFDN · #97pmythic
Pricing
Normal: $24.10
Foil: $27.54
Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying If a source you control would deal damage to an opponent or a permanent an opponent controls, it deals double that damage instead.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
Legal
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
Legal
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
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

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