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Violent Urge

InstantRed mana

First strike wins the exchange; double strike wins the game. That switch is the whole design here, and it turns a modest red combat trick into something that scales with a deckbuilding condition most tricks ignore. Cast blind, the base mode gives an attacker a small power bump and first strike: enough to trade up, clear a blocker, or push through a point of damage in a fair fight. It is deliberately underpriced for that job, so the +1/+0 reads as a floor rather than the reason to run it. The sale is delirium. Once your yard holds a spread of card types (lands, artifacts, enchantments, whatever instants and sorceries have already resolved), that same red instant upgrades first strike into double strike and doubles a lone attacker's output in a single swing. What makes the structure unusual is that it ties an instant-speed pump to how you have spent your early turns: most combat tricks resolve on their own merits, but this one asks whether your graveyard has variety, not size. That distinction matters. It rewards a mix of types rather than a stack of the same one, which is the more interesting axis to build toward, and it does the whole thing on the cheapest possible chassis for a spell that rewrites a combat step. Where the condition is online, a single creature becomes lethal reach; where it is not, you are casting a serviceable trick because you had to.

Violent Urge (dsk)
DSK · #164uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.28
Foil: $0.35
Oracle Text

Rules text

Target creature gets +1/+0 and gains first strike until end of turn. Delirium — If there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard, that creature gains double strike until end of turn.
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
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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