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Cinder Strike
Oracle Text
As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may blight 1. (You may put a -1/-1 counter on a creature you control.)
Cinder Strike deals 2 damage to target creature. It deals 4 damage to that creature instead if this spell's additional cost was paid.
Card Details
Mana CostCharacter Background
Cinder Strike is a clean, aggressive red sorcery that rewards decks willing to turn pain into power. At base, it functions like a flexible removal spell, but paying the blight cost upgrades it into a serious 4-damage answer, letting red decks punch above their mana value and keep tempo on the board. That makes it especially strong in aggro and low-curve tempo strategies, where spending a small creature’s future to clear a blocker can open the path for lethal damage. It also plays well with sacrifice and counters-matter shells: creatures that like being sacrificed or recur from the graveyard can absorb the -1/-1 counter more safely, and any plan that can mitigate or exploit counters makes the blight mode much less risky. In Limited, prioritize it highly as efficient interaction; in Constructed, pair it with cheap threats and expendable bodies to maximize the burst damage and maintain pressure.
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Character Background
Cinder Strike is a clean, aggressive red sorcery that rewards decks willing to turn pain into power. At base, it functions like a flexible removal spell, but paying the blight cost upgrades it into a serious 4-damage answer, letting red decks punch above their mana value and keep tempo on the board. That makes it especially strong in aggro and low-curve tempo strategies, where spending a small creature’s future to clear a blocker can open the path for lethal damage. It also plays well with sacrifice and counters-matter shells: creatures that like being sacrificed or recur from the graveyard can absorb the -1/-1 counter more safely, and any plan that can mitigate or exploit counters makes the blight mode much less risky. In Limited, prioritize it highly as efficient interaction; in Constructed, pair it with cheap threats and expendable bodies to maximize the burst damage and maintain pressure.
Generated using gpt-5.4-mini · Updated at 2026-08-11 12:10:43 UTC