Hitting a land for three mana feels bad, but if you set up your draws, he’s going to hit extremely hard. Suddenly, that Scry 2 looks even more exciting, since you often know what you will reveal with his ability. If it’s a nonland card, however, Hidetsugu deals damage equal to the exiled card’s mana value to any target. With this ability, you exile the top card of your library and you can play it that turn.
It costs two generic mana and one Red mana to activate this ability that also requires him to tap. The second ability, however, is where this Hidetsugu shines. Considering you’re likely sacrificing a creature being targeted by removal or not serving you much of a purpose, anyway, this is a solid and versatile ability. On average, you’ll sacrifice a creature and get pretty much the value of drawing a card.
Putting one to the bottom is like drawing one and putting two to the bottom is like drawing two. Essentially, if you choose to keep both on top, it does pretty much nothing, but if you swap the order, that’s like drawing half of a card. The difference is, with scrying, you get to choose if you want to keep one or both cards on the top of your deck, or put one or both to the bottom. As many competitive Magic game theoriests have said, scry 2 is often going to be the same as drawing one card. The first costs a single Black mana and allows you to sacrifice a creature to scry 2. Hidetsugu, Devouring Chaos has two abilities, both of them extremely relevant. Interestingly, his predecessor has made a good friend in Florian, Voldaren Scion, who cares about damage dealt to opponents, and this Hidetsugu is poised to make the same connection. He doesn’t have nearly the firepower of his previous incarnation, but this four mana 4/4 Ogre Demon deals damage in a significantly different way. Unlike Heartless Hidetsugu, Hidetsugu, Devouring Chaos is a Black creature, but has an activated ability that includes Red mana in its casting cost, immediately making him a potential Red/Black Commander option. There are some other potential shenanigans, especially if you don’t rely on only Red cards with Heartless Hidetsugu as your Commander, but in essence, if you set up your life total correctly, you can wipe out an entire table with a single tap of his ability. Plus, while you would need to remain at an odd life total before activating this ability, Torbran, Thane of Red Fell adds 2 additional damage to your opponents, wiping out any opponents with an odd numbered total. This meant you would need to remain at an odd numbered life total to not take yourself out.
With a damaging doubling effect such as Dictate of the Twin Gods in play, that could eliminate anyone with an even numbered life total. He was a 5 mana 4/3 Ogre Shaman with a tap ability to deal damage to each player, equal to half that player’s life total, rounded down. To put this new Legendary Creature into context, we have to first look at Heartless Hidetsugu. While Hidetsugu, Devouring Chaos is not quite the hard-hitting wombo-combo that is his predecessor Heartless Hidetsugu, he has his own powerful tricks that should make for an interesting Legendary Creature to play around with. The last card is familiar to long-time Magic players as the return of a key player in the original Kamigawa saga. Two of these were mythic rares, one of which would be an easily abused Dragon Spirit in Commander, while the other was a planeswalker that promises so much, but in the end just most often draws you a couple of cards. With the first spoilers of the Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty set, Magic the Gathering fans were given three cards to chew on over the Christmas holiday.
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