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LegalRemovalEDHREC #24
Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Beast creature token.
Why is this card good?
Beast Within is one of green's premier answers, and a big reason green can finally interact in Commander. The flexibility is everything: it destroys any permanent — lands, planeswalkers, indestructible commanders, problematic artifacts/enchantments, or game-ending combo pieces. At instant speed for three mana, it's the rare green removal that respects no permanent type.
The 3/3 Beast downside is real but usually trivial. You're trading a token for whatever oppressive thing you needed gone — a Smothering Tithe, a Cyclonic Rift waiting to fire, an opponent's commander. In multiplayer politics, you can even hand the token to a player who's already losing.
Who wants it: basically every green deck, especially mono-green and Gruul/Selesnya lists that lack better targeted removal. It's a default include.
When to skip it: in cutthroat/cEDH or against aggressive token/aristocrats decks, giving any creature can backfire — that 3/3 fuels sacrifice engines or attacks you for lethal. In those metas, prefer exile-based removal or cheaper answers.
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