Nuclear Fallout

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Character Background

Nuclear Fallout is a rare XBB sorcery that reads like a brutal board wipe with baggage: by giving every creature effectively -2X/-2X until end of turn you gain a flexible mass-removal tool that scales from trading with wide swarms to outright clearing the battlefield at high X, but each player also gains X rad counters, so it forces a trade of tempo for a token cost. It best supports control and midrange game plans that need a reliable reset—tempo lists can use small X values as cheap answers—while reanimator or value decks can turn the self-inflicted damage into an advantage. Deckbuilding tip: include graveyard recursion and a few indestructible or hard-to-remove finishers, or sacrifice outlets to harvest dies-for-value, and consider cards that remove, exploit, or proliferate rad counters to minimize the drawback. Remember it’s sorcery speed: choose X to kill your opponent’s board efficiently rather than overcommitting mana you could’ve spent on protecting your own long-term position.

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