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Consider More Removal!
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Account dedicated to helping Magic players, especially Commander players, consider removal options for their decks.

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Today's removal is inspired by Fallout Season 2 and me replaying New Vegas. The targeting for it can be a little iffy going beyond one creature, if you're not sure about pump shenanigans, but I can just hear the sound when casting this card.

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Magic the Gathering card V.A.T.S. Casting cost two generic and two black. Instant. Split Second. Choose any number of target creatures with equal toughness. Destroy the chosen creatures. Art by Diego Gisbert depicts several Fallout raiders in a city block full of rubble. The closest one to the point-of-view is reaching forward, his other arm held back to swing a baseball bat with nails. His neck to his hair is highlighted with a green glow, and there are several boxes with different percentages shown around his body.
February 3, 2026 at 7:44 PM
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Today's removal is a classic that give you more upside the bigger the thing you blow up. Love when a Caged Sun explodes into several plant dudes!

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Magic the Gathering card Artifact Mutation. Cost one red and one green. Instant. Destroy target artifact. It can't be regenerated. Create X 1 / 1 green Saproling creature tokens, where X is that artifact's mana value. Art by Jose Parodi depicts a robotic humanoid figure made of copper or brass in the middle of a jungle, with fines and fungus growing off its body.
February 1, 2026 at 4:26 PM
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Today's removal is so nice you can use it twice (if you have both colors). For maximum flavor, use the Innistrad one to destroy a Basilisk Collar!

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Magic the Gathering card Ancient Grudge. Cost one generic and one red. Instant. Destroy target artifact. Flashback for one green. Art by Ryan Yee depicts a shadowy werewolf, its claw slashing through a stonework Avacyn's Collar, the symbol of her church, as fire blooms around the altar it sits on.
January 29, 2026 at 6:20 PM
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Today's removal seems to have hit half of the US this weekend. I'm definitely feeling a little stunned from the cold. Extremely mana-efficient way to clear the path to victory, as long as you don't slip on the ice.
Magic the Gathering card Icy Blast. Cost X generic and one blue. Instant. Tap X target creatures. Ferocious - If you control a creature with power 4 or greater, those creatures don't untap during their controllers' next untap steps. Art by Eric Deschamps depicts a figure in an outfit of heavy leathers and bones with ice spreading across the ground around them. Four armored soldiers are frozen solid by the ice, limbs crumbling off.
January 27, 2026 at 7:38 PM
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Today's removal is inspired by the weather in the Northern US at the moment. A staple of pauper, as long as you commit to the bit. (Snow also kills me.)

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Magic the Gathering card Skred. Cost one red. Instant. Skred deals damage to target creature equal to the number of snow permanents you control. Art by Christopher Moeller depicts a giants on a snow-covered mountainside swinging a massive spiked club down at a castle rampart with several human figures on top of it. One figure holds a staff high with a red glow.
January 25, 2026 at 5:05 PM
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Today's removal is softer in two ways, though also gets around certain hard to stop traits, such as "Can't be countered" and Indestructible. Things don't have to hit the graveyard to be removed, just out of the way!

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Magic the Gathering card Unsubstantiate. Cost one generic and one blue. Instant. Return target spell or creature to its owner's hand. Art by Victor Adame Minguez depicts Jace in a long dark cloak, back turned to the viewer, with a glowing blue hand pointed at a dark horse-like creature with a gaping jaw and two tentacle-like tongues waving about. The background is mainly swirling blue and gray mists with some red highlights.
January 22, 2026 at 6:10 PM
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I got a bit... derailed and forgot Sunday's post. Set some alarms and now I'm back on track!

Train puns aside, today's removal is a fun spree card from OTJ. Creature, artifact, or both? And of course everyone enjoys a good Breeches flavor text.

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Magic the Gathering card Explosive Derailment. Cost one red. Instant. Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.) + two generic Explosive Derailment deals 4 damage to target creature. + two generic Destroy target artifact. Art by Leon Tukker depitcts a a train with giant gears running along a track of blue energy. Two dark figures stand atop the train as three cars down explodes with more blue energy and white smoke.
January 20, 2026 at 5:58 PM
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I slipped up and forgot to post yesterday, but it's Lorwyn Eclipsed day! So today we have... a reprint! A classic that can kill indestructible creatures while also giving bonuses for casting any creature type.

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Magic the Gathering card Nameless Inversion. Cost one generic and one black. Kindred Instant Shapeshifter. Changeling (This card is every creature type.) Target creature gets +3 -3 and lose all creature types until end of turn. Art by Dominik Mayer depicts a humanoid figure in tan and brown clothing, with the upper left torso's dark blue skin exposed. One hand covers its face, which has one bright white circular eye, and the rest of the face melting away into the air. The figure's left arm ends in a dark claw-like hand. Next to the figure, a bronze sword floats freely in the air. The background is wide swirling swaths of pink, purple, and blue.
January 16, 2026 at 5:20 PM
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Today's removal doesn't say destroy or exile, but removing counters is a quick way to get rid of planeswalkers, hydras, and -skelions of various sizes. And sometimes freeing an ancient god.

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Magic the Gathering card Vampire Hexmage. Cost two black. Creature Vampire Shaman. Two power one toughness. First strike. Sacrifice Vampire Hexmage: Remove all counters from target permanent. Art by Eric Deschamps depicts a pale woman with dark hair in braids looking at reaching towards the viewer. She wears a dark dress, has red lines along her skin, and small dark insects crawling along her body.
January 13, 2026 at 5:24 PM
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What's better than removal? Removal that also brings you up a body! (And an abusable ETB but that's not important right?)

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Magic the Gathering card Ravenous Chupacabra. Cost two generic and two black. Creature Beast Horror. 2 power and 2 toughness. When Ravenous Chupacabra enters the battlefield, destroy target creature an opponent controls. Art by Daarken depicts a dark dog-like creature with a ridge of fur along its back and mouth full of jagged fangs prowling along a Mesoamerican style, red clay building's platform.
January 11, 2026 at 6:37 PM
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While I don't typically enjoy land destruction myself, it is a form of removal, if particular lands start causing problems for everyone. Been thinking about the name of this card quite recently.

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Magic the Gathering card Break the Ice. Cost two black. Sorcery. Destroy target land that is snow could produce colorless. Overload cost four generic and two black. Art by Nicholas Gregory depicts a snow covered mountain range being demolished by large, black, fang-like pillars with billowing clouds of dull blue above.
January 8, 2026 at 5:07 PM
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Today's removal comes with an upside for the owner of what you remove, but if an Ensnaring Bridge or Propaganda is in the way of your winning swing, would 4 life really be that much of a difference?

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Magic: the Gathering card Nature's Claim. Cost one gree. Instant. Destroy target artifact or enchantment. Its controller gains 4 life. The art by Raoul Vitale depicts a tan statue with green overgrowth sitting in a pond and surrounded by trees. The statue has a sphinx-like form, with a human head with long hair and a helmet, and large bird-like wings on its back. The rest of statue is submerged in the water. The pond is covered in lily pads and three purple lotus flowers.
January 6, 2026 at 5:10 PM
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Today's removal hits more than just creatures! Enchantments have been getting bigger lately, and it does no good to ignore a whole card type when considering removal.

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Magic: the Gathering card Mortify. Cost one generic, one white, and one black. Instant. Destroy target creature or enchantment. Art by Nils Hamm depicts a human man wearing scale armor, horned helm, and a cloak holding a longsword. White light is erupting from his eyes and mouth as his arms splinter off halfway down, fragments flying off into the aether. The colors are very muted browns, greens, and silvers.
January 4, 2026 at 5:09 PM
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Welcome to the inaugural post of this account! My goal for this account is to help people see and consider more removal for their decks. Today, I start with a classic and a personal favorite.

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Magic: the Gathering card Terminate from Planeshift. Cost: Red and Black. Instant. Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. Art depicts a dragon flying in the air being blasted by a fount of lava from a volcano. Another volcano billows smoke further back.
January 1, 2026 at 5:28 PM