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Vaevictis Asmadi, the Dire

Legendary Creature — Elder Dragon3 generic manaBlack manaRed manaGreen mana

The combat trigger is symmetrical chaos wearing the mask of targeted removal: every attack lets the Dragon's controller pick one permanent per player (including their own), those players sacrifice the chosen permanents, and each one who lost something flips the top of their library face up, dropping it onto the battlefield if it's a permanent. That second clause is the gamble that makes the card worth building around. You choose what dies, but nobody chooses what comes back, so each swing trades a known board state for a coin-flip refill. The design lives in that two-stage structure: the sacrifice is precise, the replacement is random, and a Dragon attacking turn after turn turns the whole table into a slot machine where lands become threats and threats become whatever was on top. It rewards a deck stacked with high-impact permanents and punishes libraries thin on payoffs, but the symmetry means the pilot eats the same variance everyone else does. As the Jund member of the five reimagined Elder Dragons, its mechanic reads as a deliberate inversion of that color triad's usual grind: instead of attrition that favors the better deck over many turns, it collapses card advantage into a single repeating dice roll. The 6/6 flyer does its work by keeping the engine swinging rather than by winning races, because the sacrifice fires on the declaration of the attack rather than on combat damage. A chump-blocked Dragon still detonates the whole table, and every turn it survives compounds the entropy.

Vaevictis Asmadi, the Dire (pm19)
PM19 · #225smythic
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying Whenever Vaevictis Asmadi attacks, for each player, choose target permanent that player controls. Those players sacrifice those permanents. Each player who sacrificed a permanent this way reveals the top card of their library, then puts it onto the battlefield if it's a permanent card.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
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
N/A
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