Gnashing of Teeth
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Three-mana modal removal: -5/-5 with exile insurance on one creature, or -1/-1 across a player's whole board. The sweep mode punishes token and Army-counter strategies; the spot mode kills nearly anything mid-sized.
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Gameplay notes
The -1/-1 mode is a blowout against fresh recruit tokens and 0/0 Armies with few counters. Sorcery speed — plan removal before combat, not during.
Key synergies
With Head of the Hunt on the battlefield, Gnashing's -1/-1 mode exiles each opposing creature it kills and creates a 2/2 Wolf for each one, turning the sweeper into both mass removal and a major board-building effect.
Gnashing of Teeth can kill a creature for three mana, immediately reducing Dreaded Bat-Cloud to {1}{B}; together they provide removal plus a 4/2 flying deathtouch threat for only five mana.
Easy Pickings and Gnashing of Teeth's sweep mode combine to give all opposing creatures -2/-2, letting the two effects clear substantially larger boards while Glóin remains available to cast afterward.
Either mode of Gnashing of Teeth can cause opposing creatures to die and trigger Great Fierce Bee's scry ability, letting the removal also improve your next draw; the sweep mode can generate that value while clearing multiple small creatures.
Gnashing of Teeth's -1/-1 sweep can put opposing nontoken creature cards into the graveyard for Supper for Spiders to return. This does not work on Recruit or other tokens because they are not creature cards and cease to exist, while Gnashing's targeted -5/-5 mode exiles creatures it kills instead.