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Zero Point Ballad
Oracle Text
Destroy all creatures with toughness X or less. You lose X life. If X is 6 or more, return a creature card put into a graveyard this way to the battlefield under your control.
Card Details
Mana CostCharacter Background
Zero Point Ballad is a harsh encore in which the orchestra of inevitability plays at your command: choose X, then wipe every creature with toughness X or less, paying X life as the counter-melody. In practice, it’s a control-leaning sweeper that converts board threats into a calculated resource drain—especially lethal when X hits 6 or more, letting you “reharmonize” a creature card from the graveyard back onto the battlefield, turning a one-for-many wipe into a swingy value reset. To maximize it, build a shell that reliably supplies sturdy bodies or targets worth reclaiming—dimir/esper control often pairs it with cheap removal, graveyard tutors, and self-mill, while midrange shells can include recursive finishers so the returned creature actually advances your win condition. Set your X based on the pod’s most common toughness benchmarks, and don’t be afraid to pay life early if it prevents lethal attacks; the real strength is stabilizing, then reintroducing a threat on your tempo-controlled terms.
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Character Background
Zero Point Ballad is a harsh encore in which the orchestra of inevitability plays at your command: choose X, then wipe every creature with toughness X or less, paying X life as the counter-melody. In practice, it’s a control-leaning sweeper that converts board threats into a calculated resource drain—especially lethal when X hits 6 or more, letting you “reharmonize” a creature card from the graveyard back onto the battlefield, turning a one-for-many wipe into a swingy value reset. To maximize it, build a shell that reliably supplies sturdy bodies or targets worth reclaiming—dimir/esper control often pairs it with cheap removal, graveyard tutors, and self-mill, while midrange shells can include recursive finishers so the returned creature actually advances your win condition. Set your X based on the pod’s most common toughness benchmarks, and don’t be afraid to pay life early if it prevents lethal attacks; the real strength is stabilizing, then reintroducing a threat on your tempo-controlled terms.
Generated using gpt-5.4-nano · Updated at 2026-03-27 22:18:49 UTC