He’s more of a Standard mainstay and won’t really see much play outside of that in competitive formats but his ability of pinging every player on your upkeep will be fine in regular multiplayer casual formats but not so relevant in Commander where the starting life total is 40. His ‘cost’ is 2BB but the spectacle on it is 1BB which is fairly easy to achieve with the amount of creature and spell damage action that’s going on. Today we’re looking at Spawn of Mayhem which is incredibly aggressive as a creature. We’re reviewing cards that didn’t get much fanfare during their debut and looking back over them with a bit of hindsight! Hey Everyone and welcome back to Pojo’s Card of the Day. By no means is it a multi-format star, but it does enough rude things to make it worth considering in a black deck. So Spawn of Mayhem is an aggressively-costed beater that turns on spectacle and comes down ahead of schedule! It even starts getting bigger as your life total dwindles, which isn’t ideal (but still a good way to close out games). And that’s before we get to its triggered ability, which is great for the deck.ġ damage to everything doesn’t seem like much, but every little bit helps, and it helps to turn on spectacle costs remember that spectacle just needs some life loss from an opponent, regardless of how much. Spawn of Mayhem is more the former, but the point of getting a 4/4 with flying and trample for 3 mana instead of 4 is still a pretty good one! It’s usually a turn before better defensive measures can come online, and so the Spawn usually gets a couple solid turns in of smashing in their face before being interrupted. The Rakdos decks in general like to put through little pricks of damage in order to set up for their spectacle costs, which are either discounts or bigger, flashier effects. Spawn of Mayhem was never a creature that caught on massively, though it definitely isn’t because it’s bad, by any stretch! An evasive demon that crashes through blockers and comes down ahead of schedule (even if by only one turn) is worth a look, particularly with its triggered ability helping the deck out.

Mtg spectacle