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Sorcery
LegalRemovalEDHREC #89
Destroy target creature or enchantment an opponent controls. You lose life equal to that permanent's mana value.
Why is this card good?
Feed the Swarm solves one of mono-black's oldest problems: enchantment removal. Black historically can't touch enchantments, so this two-mana sorcery is a genuine gap-filler, not just another creature kill spell.
That flexibility is the entire pitch. You're paying for the option to blow up a problematic Smothering Tithe, Rhystic Study, Ghostly Prison, or game-warping enchantment that your black deck otherwise can't answer. The creature-destroy mode is incidental upside, killing anything regardless of indestructible/hexproof-from-... well, no, it's targeted, but it ignores indestructible.
Wants it: any heavily black or mono-black deck — control, midrange, aristocrats, stax mirrors — where enchantment hate is scarce. It's near-mandatory in mono-black where alternatives don't exist.
Drawback: the life loss scales with mana value, so killing a big creature or expensive enchantment hurts. In life-total-as-resource decks that's fine; in aggressive 1v1 or low-life builds, hitting a 7-drop costs you a lot.
Skip it if you're multicolor with cleaner removal (Anguished Unmaking, Beast Within, generic green/white answers).
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