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Thornbite Staff + Fire Whip + Quietus Spike

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Thornbite Staff
Thornbite Staff
Fire Whip
Fire Whip
Quietus Spike
Quietus Spike
Destroy all creatures opponents controlDestroy all creatures opponents control whenever a creature enters the battlefieldLock

How it works

  1. Activate the creature by tapping it, dealing damage to an opponent's creature.
  2. The opponent's creature dies due to deathtouch, triggering the second ability granted by Thornbite Staff, untapping your creature.
  3. Repeat until all opponents' creatures die.
  4. Repeat each time a creature enters the battlefield under an opponent's control.

This cunning machinery transforms any creature into a lethal exterminator by layering multiple enhancements together. First, you suit up your creature with Quietus Spike for its crucial deathtouch property, while also bestowing a direct-damage tap ability via Fire Whip. Thornbite Staff rounds out the trinity by granting your creature its own sniping activation alongside the vital static trigger that untaps the equipped creature whenever *any* creature dies. Because the deathtouch granted by the Spike turns every 1-damage ping into a fatal blow, the Staff instantly untaps your creature in response, letting you machine-gun down every single creature your opponents control and cleanly locking them out of the board whenever a new threat dares to enter.

Legal in:CommanderLegacyModernOathbreakerPredhVintage
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