Finishing off the week is Fatal Push, which
miiiiight be a bit pushed. Bad pun, I know.
This is the one-mana kill spell black has been
waiting for, honestly. The restriction on what
it kills is reasonable (CMC 2 or less is enough
in the early game), but revolt means it kills a
shocking number of relevant creatures once it
gets turned on. Modern and Legacy are populated
almost exclusively with creatures whose CMCs are
low enough to get nailed by Fatal Push,
especially with revolt triggered, and those
formats are rife with fetchlands and other
tricks that enable revolt.
This is easily the best constructed card of the
set. It's not great outside of tournament play,
but this is what you want if you're in black,
alongside spells to kill the handful of
creatures this whiffs on.
It seems likely that this card was intended
to
be an easy answer for Smuggler's Copter. Then
they banned the Copter a week before Fatal
Push's release date. While you guys look up the
art for Look at Me, I'm the DCI, we should
remember that a lot of the most commonly played
cards in Modern do have a converted mana cost of
exactly two, so it's not exactly like this card
is going to be useless. I'm not sure it's worth sideboarding in solely to deal with mana elves
and the like, but there are certain opponents
against whom it will give you a strong advantage
when used at the right time.
