Calamity, Galloping Inferno

Calamity is a 4/6 haste legendary Horse that, when attacking while saddled, creates TWO tapped and attacking token copies of the saddling creature (the effect repeats once), sacrificed at end step. It demands a strong creature to saddle it for maximum value — doubling ETB triggers, damage, or death triggers. Signature in aggro and token/aristocrats shells where the copy-attack-trigger generates massive tempo or sacrifice payoffs. Requires at least one nonlegendary creature to saddle it, making it dependent on board state and relatively telegraphed.

• Calamity's triggered ability fires twice ('repeat this process once'), creating two separate tapped-and-attacking token copies of the chosen nonlegendary creature — not one copy. This means two ETB triggers, two attacks, and two death-trigger opportunities when they're sacrificed.

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• The tokens enter tapped and attacking, so their ETBs resolve but they do not trigger 'whenever this creature attacks' abilities — only abilities that trigger on attacking are NOT triggered since the creature was never declared as an attacker from an untapped state; however, attack triggers that say 'whenever ~ attacks' DO trigger since the game considers tokens entering attacking as attacking.

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• Saddling with a high-value ETB creature (e.g., Dockside Extortionist, Etali) creates a devastating attack; if the saddler is itself a strong threat, Calamity essentially triples the attack that turn — the original saddler plus two token copies all attack simultaneously.

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• EDHREC rank: #6,140