Aerial Assault

set	min	mtgo
-	0.90	0.03 tix

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Name	Aerial Assault
Type	Sorcery
Description	Destroy target tapped creature. You gain 1 life for each creature you control with flying.
Flavor	"Oh, you must be mistaken. Hawks are solitary hunters, you see." —Bunder Diedreck, ornithologist
Artist	Dan Murayama Scott
Set	Jumpstart #80
Wallpaper	download
Image	download

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About Aerial Assault

Aerial Assault, Sorcery, designed by Dan Murayama Scott first released in Jun, 2019 in the set Core Set 2020 and was printed exactly in 2 different ways. It's currently being selled by the minimum price of 0.90.

A deck focused on flying creatures, such as a White-Blue or White-Black Flying deck, would benefit from including Aerial Assault in their strategy. This card can provide targeted removal for tapped creatures while also gaining life based on the number of flying creatures controlled, making it particularly effective in decks with a high number of flying creatures. However, there are potentially better options for removal in certain situations, such as Swords to Plowshares or Path to Exile, which offer more versatile removal at a lower cost. Whether Aerial Assault should see play ultimately depends on the specific strategy and synergy of the deck it is included in.

Rules

07/12/19

If any creatures were exiled “until” the target creature left the battlefield, those creatures will return before you gain life.

07/12/19

If the target creature is an illegal target by the time Aerial Assault tries to resolve, the spell doesn’t resolve. You won’t gain life. If the target is legal but is not destroyed (most likely because it has indestructible), you will gain life.