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Any time someone attacks one of your other opponents, their creatures gain menace, making blocks a nightmare
Sorcery (141) 1x Abandon Hope 1x AEther Tide 1x Animist's Awakening 1x Avalanche 1x Banefire 1x Battle at the Bridge 1x Black Sun's Zenith 1x Blaze 1x Bloodcurdling Scream 1x Bond of Agony 1x Bonfire of the Damned 1x Borrowing the East Wind 1x Braingeyser 1x Breakthrough 1x Brightflame 1x Builder's Bane 1x Burn from Within 1x By Force 1x Clan Defiance 1x Conflagrate 1x Consume Spirit 1x Corrosive Gale 1x Crater's Claws 1x Crime / Punishment 1x Crime / Punishment 1x Curse of the Swine 1x Cut / Ribbons 1x Cut / Ribbons 1x Damnable Pact 1x Dark Salvation 1x Dawnglow Infusion 1x Death Cloud 1x Death Grasp 1x Debt to the Deathless 1x Decree of Justice 1x Demonfire 1x Detonate 1x Devil's Play 1x Diabolic Revelation 1x Disintegrate 1x Displacement Wave 1x Distorting Wake 1x Drain Life 1x Dread Summons 1x Dregs of Sorrow 1x Earthquake 1x Energy Bolt 1x Enshrined Memories 1x Entrancing Melody 1x Entreat the Angels 1x Epic Experiment 1x Exsanguinate 1x Fanning the Flames 1x Fascination 1x Fireball 1x Firecat Blitz 1x Flowstone Slide 1x Forced March 1x Gaze of Granite 1x Gelatinous Genesis 1x Genesis Wave 1x Ghitu Fire 1x Goblin Offensive 1x Green Sun's Zenith 1x Hour of Eternity 1x Hurricane 1x Illuminate 1x Immortal Servitude 1x Increasing Confusion 1x Indomitable Creativity 1x Invoke the Firemind 1x Kaervek's Purge 1x Kaervek's Torch 1x Killing Wave 1x Lava Burst 1x Lavalanche 1x Liliana's Indignation 1x Martial Coup 1x Meltdown 1x Meteor Blast 1x Meteor Shower 1x Midnight Ritual 1x Mind Grind 1x Mind Shatter 1x Mind Spring 1x Mind Twist 1x Mind Warp 1x Molten Disaster 1x New Frontiers 1x Open Into Wonder 1x Part Water 1x Postmortem Lunge 1x Profane Command 1x Prosperity 1x Psychic Drain 1x Rakdos's Return 1x Rats' Feast 1x Reap Intellect 1x Recall 1x Red Sun's Zenith 1x Release the Gremlins 1x Reshape 1x Return to the Ranks 1x Rolling Earthquake 1x Rolling Thunder 1x Savage Twister 1x Scorched Earth 1x Sealed Fate 1x Shattered Crypt 1x Skyscribing 1x Slime Molding 1x Soul Burn 1x Soul Strings 1x Spoils of War 1x Stir the Grave 1x Stream of Life 1x Subterranean Tremors 1x Sudden Demise 1x Supply / Demand 1x Supply / Demand 1x Swallowing Plague 1x Sylvan Offering 1x Tectonic Break 1x Tempt with Vengeance 1x Thrive 1x Titan's Revenge 1x Torment of Hailfire 1x Torrent of Lava 1x Tropical Storm 1x Uncage the Menagerie 1x Unwilling Recruit 1x Villainous Wealth 1x Volcanic Eruption 1x Wargate 1x Wave of Indifference 1x Weird Harvest 1x Wildcall 1x Wildest Dreams 1x Winter Blast 1x Word of Binding 1x Wurmcalling Instant (88) 1x Alabaster Potion 1x Aurelia's Fury 1x Balduvian Rage 1x Biomass Mutation 1x Blazing Shoal 1x Blue Sun's Zenith 1x Broken Ambitions 1x Captain's Maneuver 1x Choking Vines 1x Chord of Calling 1x Clash of Wills 1x Comet Storm 1x Commune with Lava 1x Condescend 1x Death Denied 1x Death Wind 1x Disembowel 1x Disrupting Shoal 1x Divine Deflection 1x Dominate 1x Dwarven Catapult 1x Empty the Pits 1x Enrage 1x Epiphany at the Drownyard 1x Ertai's Meddling 1x Excise 1x Fall of the Titans 1x Fault Line 1x Festival of the Guildpact 1x Flaming Gambit 1x Flash of Insight 1x Glimpse the Sun God 1x Gridlock 1x Guardian Angel 1x Hail of Arrows 1x Heat Ray 1x Heaven / Earth 1x Heaven / Earth 1x Howl from Beyond 1x Icy Blast 1x Killing Glare 1x Lifecraft Awakening 1x Logic Knot 1x Magmaquake 1x Malicious Advice 1x Mindswipe 1x Molder 1x Nourishing Shoal 1x Outmaneuver 1x Overrule 1x Power Sink 1x Prismatic Boon 1x Pull from Tomorrow 1x Rally the Ancestors 1x Ravaging Blaze 1x Read the Runes 1x Reality Spasm 1x Repeal 1x Rock Slide 1x Sanguine Sacrament 1x Secure the Wastes 1x Serene Sunset 1x Shining Shoal 1x Sickening Shoal 1x Skeletal Scrying 1x Spell Blast 1x Spell Burst 1x Sphinx's Revelation 1x Squall Line 1x Starstorm 1x Street Spasm 1x Strength of the Tajuru 1x Stroke of Genius 1x Suffer the Past 1x Syncopate 1x Temper 1x Timecrafting 1x Tribal Unity 1x Unexpectedly Absent 1x Untamed Might 1x Venarian Glimmer 1x Vitalizing Cascade 1x Volcanic Geyser 1x Wake the Dead 1x Whir of Invention 1x White Sun's Zenith 1x Windstorm 1x Winter's Chill Creature (27) 1x Altered Ego 1x Apocalypse Hydra 1x Balduvian Hydra 1x Endless One 1x Feral Hydra 1x Frankenstein's Monster 1x Genesis Hydra 1x Grenzo, Dungeon Warden 1x Hangarback Walker 1x Hooded Hydra 1x Ivy Elemental 1x Krakilin 1x Lifeblood Hydra 1x Lightning Serpent 1x Maga, Traitor to Mortals 1x Mikaeus, the Lunarch 1x Mistcutter Hydra 1x Nimbus Swimmer 1x Phyrexian Marauder 1x Primordial Hydra 1x Protean Hydra 1x Rock Hydra 1x Savageborn Hydra 1x Shifting Wall 1x Skyrider Elf 1x Vastwood Hydra 1x Walking Ballista Artifact (8) 1x Astral Cornucopia 1x Briber's Purse 1x Chalice of the Void 1x Chimeric Mass 1x Engineered Explosives 1x Orochi Hatchery 1x Riptide Replicator 1x Sigil of Distinction Enchantment (6) 1x Endless Scream 1x Iceberg 1x Mana Bloom 1x Quarantine Field 1x Soul Echo 1x Venarian Gold Planeswalker (1) 1x Nissa, Steward of Elements Sideboard Planeswalker (8) 1x Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver 1x Chandra, Flamecaller 1x Chandra Nalaar 1x Huatli, Warrior Poet 1x Liliana, Defiant Necromancer Flip 1x Sorin, Grim Nemesis 1x Tezzeret the Seeker 1x Ugin, the Spirit Dragon Maybeboard All cards that have a variable mana cost
If early playtesting shows it has merit, the designer(s) can then spend some time trying to figure out how it can work within the rules
Wrap Up Whirler Virtuoso | Illustration by Lake Hurwitz Energy has a storied history as being a highly parasitic and overly powerful mechanic since its inception, and the new energy cards continue both trends
