Locust Spray

Locust Spray

Mana Cost: {B}

Type: Instant

Oracle Text:
Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
Cycling {B} ({B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Power/Toughness: -/-

Rarity: uncommon

Prints: View all prints (1) →

Expansion: Aetherdrift

Price ( USD): $0.06

USD: $0.06 · EUR: €0.10

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Character Background

Locust Spray reads like a tiny, efficient tool for tempo and aggro matchups: a one-mana instant that turns a swarm of one-toughness blockers into road signs or nibbles a point off a bigger body to let your attacker trade up. Its true power is flexibility — as removal it answers 1/1 tokens and expendable creatures, and as a cycling card it becomes a cheap card-selection button when you need gas. Build it into mono‑black or aggressive midrange decks that want low-cost interaction and plenty of disruption; four in the 60 can be reasonable in token-hate or tempo lists, while two or three suit sideboards for control shells. Specific synergy includes pairing it with deathtouch or evasion-bearing attackers (shrink a blocker to let deathtouch finish the job, or clear chump-blockers so a flier gets through). Because it’s instant-speed and cheap, think of it as a removal/pump-combo enabler rather than a long-term answer, and embrace cycling as insurance against clunky draws.

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