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Stir Up Trouble

common Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast this spell, an or creature or pay .

Destroy target creature.

B- Grade from the win rate

Win rate when drawn 57.0% +0.8 vs average 48,095 games

Win rates and picks

56.7% 98,884 games
Average pick ()
5.3

By deck

  • Goblin Army 57.9% 25,989 games
  • Ferocious Wolves 55.9% 13,297 games
  • Removal Control 56.4% 3,916 games
  • Removal Midrange 58.0% 1,320 games

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

Reviews

Some kind of Bone Splinters variant is always nice to see and the mechanic in this set gives us a very real incentive to want to our creatures. Stir Up Trouble won't be able to go into every black deck, but it'll excel in the decks that really want it, namely the black/red goblins decks.

How to draft it

One of the 20 cards to memorize. Destroys a creature for 1 mana. As you cast it, you also one of your creatures or , or pay 4 more.

Roles in each deck

  • Goblin Army Removal

    One mana and something you were happy to lose destroys any creature. Goblin Army always has that something: a 1/1 , a , a Crude Bent Blade that already did its job, or a Fearsome Goblin Pair that 4 as it . With nothing to give up it still works for .

    How to play it

    Give up the least useful thing you have, such as a spare or a 1/1 whose enters ability already happened. As a it has to clear the blocker before you attack.

    Learn the Goblin Army deck

  • Ferocious Wolves Removal

    One mana and a destroy any creature. With nothing spare, paying instead turns it into a 5-mana kill spell for the late game.

    How to play it

    Good are a Stony-Voiced Goblins whose discard is done, the from Clap! Snap! or a .

    Learn the Ferocious Wolves deck

  • Removal Control Removal

    A reviewer expected only Goblin Army to have the spare bodies its extra cost asks for. Removal Control has plenty of them: Soldiers, the from Down, Down to Goblin-town or Goblin Plate Mail, and a Thrór's Map that has done its job. With one of those, the spell kills any creature for .

    How to play it

    Front Porch Sentries is the best , because its trigger then shrinks another of their creatures, a against X/1s. With no spare body, pay instead and treat it as a 5-mana kill spell late in the game. Don't feed it a blocker you still need.

    Learn the Removal Control deck

  • Removal Midrange Removal

    Any creature for plus a , and this deck has plenty of cheap things to give up: a Soldier , the Axe from Iron Hills Blacksmith, a Crude Bent Blade that has made its kill, or a Stony-Voiced Goblins whose discard already happened. With nothing to give up, paying instead turns it into a 5-mana kill spell.

    How to play it

    Give up the least useful thing you have, never a creature better than the one you kill. Front Porch Sentries is the best choice, because sacrificing it counts as dying and its -1/-1 can finish a second creature with 1 toughness. At 1 mana it fits beside a on turn 3.

    Learn the Removal Midrange deck