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Vicious Rivalry
Oracle Text
As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life.
Destroy all artifacts and creatures with mana value X or less.
Card Details
Mana CostCharacter Background
Vicious Rivalry reads like a grudging end to an escalating duel: you pay X life and the campus rivalry cleans house, destroying all artifacts and creatures with mana value X or less. In play it’s a scalable boardwipe that best supports control and midrange strategies—especially decks that want a flexible answer to wide aggro starts or artifact-heavy boards without overcommitting early. Use X to tailor the sweep: small X for cheap aggro skirmishes, large X to reset midrange stalemates. Deckbuilding tip: include reliable life-gain or lifelink sources so you can pay for bigger X more safely, or treat this as a sideboard finisher against cheap-curve artifact and token strategies. A concrete synergy is running resilient threats and recurring threats (graveyard recursion or recursion creatures) so you can rebuild after resetting the board; alternatively, pair with spot-removal package so you don’t overpay when one big threat remains. Thematic and precise, it trades life for tempo and control across midgames.
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Character Background
Vicious Rivalry reads like a grudging end to an escalating duel: you pay X life and the campus rivalry cleans house, destroying all artifacts and creatures with mana value X or less. In play it’s a scalable boardwipe that best supports control and midrange strategies—especially decks that want a flexible answer to wide aggro starts or artifact-heavy boards without overcommitting early. Use X to tailor the sweep: small X for cheap aggro skirmishes, large X to reset midrange stalemates. Deckbuilding tip: include reliable life-gain or lifelink sources so you can pay for bigger X more safely, or treat this as a sideboard finisher against cheap-curve artifact and token strategies. A concrete synergy is running resilient threats and recurring threats (graveyard recursion or recursion creatures) so you can rebuild after resetting the board; alternatively, pair with spot-removal package so you don’t overpay when one big threat remains. Thematic and precise, it trades life for tempo and control across midgames.
Generated using gpt-5-mini · Updated at 2026-05-14 21:10:36 UTC