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Magnificent End

common Instant

This spell costs less to cast if it targets a creature.

Magnificent End deals 5 damage to target creature.

B- Grade from the win rate

Win rate when drawn 56.8% +0.6 vs average 46,144 games

Win rates and picks

55.9% 81,757 games
Average pick ()
6.1

By deck

  • Draw Two 57.9% 23,446 games
  • Dwarves & Equipment 55.7% 17,144 games
  • Removal Midrange 57.1% 1,472 games

Win rates from , 323,114 games. This card is compared with the set average (56.2%).

Reviews

Two mana for 5 damage is a very good rate, even if it only targets a creature. At 5 mana, this is kind of on par with some red for the same cost, which is actually interesting. I'd rather it outright destroyed a creature, like previous versions of this effect have done, but Magnificent End is still a solid white removal spell.

White's commons are really bad in The Hobbit.Magnificent End, Dwarven Shortsword, and Esgaroth Garrison are the only white commons I'm ever happy to play (although Garrison often gets crowded out by other 5s).

Magnificent End: for 5 damage, and “” gives you a lot of leeway here. Never attack your Bothersome Noisemaker into this.

How to draft it

One of the 20 cards to memorize. Deals 5 damage to a creature for 5 mana, or for 2 if it targets a creature, such as an attacker.

Roles in each deck

  • Dwarves & Equipment Removal

    Magnificent End deals 5 damage to a creature for 5 mana, or for if the target is . You are the one attacking in this deck, so the opponent's creatures are rarely tapped on your turn and you pay the full 5 more often than Draw Two does.

    How to play it

    Keep 2 mana open on the opponent's turn, and when they attack, their attackers cost you only .

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  • Draw Two Removal

    Five damage kills almost any creature in the set, and against a one the spell costs only 2. On their turn that fits beside the mana you already hold for Plunder and Stone by Sunlight, and 4 open mana covers both.

    How to play it

    Kill an attacker after attackers are declared. On your own turn it costs the full 5 unless their creature is , and Gaze in Wonder can tap it. A attacker stays untapped and gets no discount.

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  • Removal Midrange Removal

    With 5 damage this kills almost any creature, and aimed at a creature it costs instead of . Most of the time that makes it a 2-mana answer to an attacker.

    How to play it

    Keep 2 mana open on their turn and kill their biggest attacker once it has attacked, since attacking taps it unless it has . A low price is no reason to fire it at a .

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  • Patchwork Midrange Removal

    Five damage at speed kills almost anything, and a target cuts the cost from to . Against Ferocious Wolves and Goblin Army, whose big creatures attack every turn, that makes it a cheap kill spell in almost every game.

    How to play it

    A creature that attacked you stays until its controller's next untap step, so you can also kill it on your own turn for and still cast a creature. attackers never tap, and paying the full 5 mana is the misplay to avoid.

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