Black Sun's Twilight
Instant
Up to one target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn. If X is 5 or more, return a creature card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
Instant speed removal that can scale into an instant speed tapped flash creature for the 2-for-1 is pretty good value. Might be too below rate, but doesn't require a target and can serve as removal for a variety of decks and even a tangible late game threat in control and some ramp decks. Is this too overcosted/narrow, or does this fulfill enough niches to see play? I think it looks pretty good and might give it a spin if we can find room
Black decks don't always get to 6 mana, and you don't want to have to hold your removal spell for that long. Played for less than 6, this is just a significantly weaker Dismember. With how tight the competition is, I don't think this has a chance.
Yeah this is too below rate if X is less than 5. It's a lot less clunkier than Profane Command which was commonly cubed way back in the day, but that could also just randomly kill your opponent with its target player loses X life / give team evasion modes. Something like Ravenous Chupacabra is generally more preferable to this in terms of getting value from, not to mention recursion / blink.
Maybe the modality makes up for the inefficieny… it’s very powerful at high cmcs and still functional at low
Cmcs.
But my guess is that it doesn’t.
Until X = 5, this is jus an extremely inefficient Terror / Doom Blade variant sans being able to kill something that's indestructible or something. Although this is modal, X will probably be less than 5 like 90% of the time this is cast.
Black Sun's Twilight
Instant
Up to one target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn. If X is 5 or more, return a creature card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
Instant speed removal that can scale into an instant speed tapped flash creature for the 2-for-1 is pretty good value. Might be too below rate, but doesn't require a target and can serve as removal for a variety of decks and even a tangible late game threat in control and some ramp decks. Is this too overcosted/narrow, or does this fulfill enough niches to see play? I think it looks pretty good and might give it a spin if we can find room
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But my guess is that it doesn’t.
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StaffUntil X = 5, this is jus an extremely inefficient Terror / Doom Blade variant sans being able to kill something that's indestructible or something. Although this is modal, X will probably be less than 5 like 90% of the time this is cast.
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