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Pernicious Deed
Oracle Text
{X}, Sacrifice this enchantment: Destroy each artifact, creature, and enchantment with mana value X or less.
Card Details
Mana CostCharacter Background
Pernicious Deed is a quintessential control and attrition tool, turning a modest enchantment into a looming threat that can reset the battlefield on your terms. At three mana, it slots cleanly into Golgari-style midrange or hard-control shells that want to survive the early game and then convert mana into a scalable sweeper. The ability to choose X makes it unusually flexible: it can pick off cheap creatures and mana rocks early, or later sweep away nearly everything except your own high-cost finishers. It pairs especially well with decks built to recover faster than the opponent, such as lists using planeswalkers, recursion, or resilient threats like manlands and graveyard value. A strong deckbuilding tip is to bias your curve upward slightly and include permanents that survive a low-X Deed, since you’ll often engineer the wipe around your own board state. Thematically, it feels like a slow, methodical ruin—less a blast than a deliberate purge.
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Character Background
Pernicious Deed is a quintessential control and attrition tool, turning a modest enchantment into a looming threat that can reset the battlefield on your terms. At three mana, it slots cleanly into Golgari-style midrange or hard-control shells that want to survive the early game and then convert mana into a scalable sweeper. The ability to choose X makes it unusually flexible: it can pick off cheap creatures and mana rocks early, or later sweep away nearly everything except your own high-cost finishers. It pairs especially well with decks built to recover faster than the opponent, such as lists using planeswalkers, recursion, or resilient threats like manlands and graveyard value. A strong deckbuilding tip is to bias your curve upward slightly and include permanents that survive a low-X Deed, since you’ll often engineer the wipe around your own board state. Thematically, it feels like a slow, methodical ruin—less a blast than a deliberate purge.
Generated using gpt-5.4-mini · Updated at 2026-09-05 20:10:44 UTC