Devastating Onslaught is one of those cards players keep asking about. Here is, in plain words, what its official text says, the rulings published by Wizards of the Coast, and the combos players actually run.
Official card text
Create X tokens that are copies of target artifact or creature you control. Those tokens gain haste until end of turn. Sacrifice them at the beginning of the next end step.
How it works : Devastating Onslaught
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
Any enters abilities of the copied permanent will trigger when the tokens enter. Any “as [this permanent] enters” or “[this permanent] enters with” abilities of the copied permanent will also work.
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- #2· Wizards of the Coast
The tokens copy exactly what was printed on the original permanent and nothing else (unless that permanent is itself copying something else; see below). They don’t copy whether that permanent is tapped or untapped, whether it has any counters on it or Auras attached to it, or any non-copy effects that have changed its power, toughness, types, color, and so on. If the permanent is a Vehicle, the copies are not crewed. If it is an Equipment, the copies are not attached to any creature.
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- #3· Wizards of the Coast
If the copied permanent is a token, the tokens that are created copy the original characteristics of that token as stated by the effect that created the token.
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- #4· Wizards of the Coast
If the copied permanent is copying something else, then the tokens enter as whatever that permanent copied.
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Popular combos
Real combos played by the community, sorted by popularity.
Devastating Onslaught + Terror of the Peaks
- 1Cast Devastating Onslaught by paying
, creating five token copies of Terror the Peaks. - 2The Terror of the Peaks tokens enter the battlefield, triggering the nontoken Terror of the Peaks five times, and each Terror of the Peaks token four times.
- 3Resolve all Terror of the Peaks triggers, dealing 125 damage divided among a maximum of 25 targets.
Dualcaster Mage + Devastating Onslaught
- 1Cast Devastating Onslaught by paying
, targeting an artifact or creature you control. - 2Holding priority, cast Dualcaster Mage by paying
. - 3When Dualcaster Mage enters the battlefield, it triggers, copying Devastating Onslaught, targeting Dualcaster Mage.
- 4Resolve the copy of Devastating Onslaught, creating a token copy of Dualcaster Mage.
- 5Repeat from step 3.
Devastating Onslaught + Exalted Sunborn
- 1Cast Devastating Onslaught by paying
, creating six token copies of Exalted Sunborn. - 2Whenever you create one or more tokens until the beginning of your end step, you will instead create 128 times as many of those tokens due to the Exalted Sunborns.
Devastating Onslaught + Mana Geyser + Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak
- 1Cast Mana Geyser by paying
, adding for each tapped land your opponents control. - 2Cast Devastating Onslaught by paying
, creating two token copies of Pinnacle Monk with haste. - 3When the Pinnacle Monk tokens enter, they trigger, returning Mana Geyser and Devastating Onslaught from your graveyard to your hand.
- 4Repeat.
Scourge of Valkas + Devastating Onslaught
- 1Cast Devastating Onslaught by paying , creating five token copies of Scourge of Valkas.
- 2The five Scourge of Valkas tokens enter the battlefield, triggering each Scourge of Valkas five times.
- 3Resolve all Scourge of Valkas triggers, dealing at least 180 damage divided among a maximum of 30 targets.
Devastating Onslaught + Mana Geyser + Eternal Witness
- 1Cast Mana Geyser by paying , adding for each tapped land your opponents control.
- 2Cast Devastating Onslaught by paying , creating two token copies of Eternal Witness with haste.
- 3When the Eternal Witness tokens enter, they trigger, returning Mana Geyser and Devastating Onslaught from your graveyard to your hand.
- 4Repeat.
Spinerock Tyrant + Devastating Onslaught
- 1Cast Devastating Onslaught by paying its mana cost targeting the creature that can recur spells.
- 2When you cast that spell, Spinerock Tyrant triggers, copying Devastating Onslaught and choosing Spinerock Tyrant as its target.
- 3Resolve the copy of Devastating Onslaught, creating a Spinerock Tyrant token.
- 4Resolve the original Devastating Onslaught, creating a token copy of the spell recursion creature.
- 5When that token enters, it triggers, returning Devastating Onslaught from your graveyard to your hand.
- 6Repeat from step 1 one additional time, resulting in a total of five Spinerock Tyrants.
- 7Cast the spell that creates a Treasure token by paying its mana cost, targeting any creature.
- 8Each copy of Spinerock Tyrant triggers, copying that spell once for each Spinerock Tyrant you control.
Devastating Onslaught + Mana Geyser + Ardent Elementalist
- 1Cast Mana Geyser by paying , adding for each tapped land your opponents control.
- 2Cast Devastating Onslaught by paying , creating two token copies of Ardent Elementalist with haste.
- 3When the Ardent Elementalist tokens enter, they trigger, returning Mana Geyser and Devastating Onslaught from your graveyard to your hand.
- 4Repeat.
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