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Creature - Specter 2/3, 2BB (4)
Flying
Whenever Abyssal Specter deals damage to a player, that player discards a card.1
"Open the gates, and bid them enter." -Lim-Dûl, the Necromancer
Illus. Ruth Thompson
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Creature - Zombie 3/1, 3B (4)
Haste
{B}: Return Ashen Ghoul from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate this ability only during your upkeep and only if three or more creature cards are above Ashen Ghoul.1
Illus. Ron Spencer
Gatherer Card Rulings [Nov 2009]
- 10/1/2008: A card is "above" another card in your graveyard if it was put into that graveyard later.
- 10/1/2008: layers may not rearrange the cards in their graveyards.
- 10/1/2008: If an effect or rule puts two or more cards into the same graveyard at the same time, the owner of those cards may arrange them in any order.
- 10/1/2008: The last thing that happens to a resolving instant or sorcery spell is that it's put into its owner's graveyard. Example: You cast Wrath of God. All creatures on the battlefield are destroyed. You arrange all the cards put into your graveyard this way in any order you want. The other players in the game do the same to the cards that are put into their graveyards. Then you put Wrath of God into your graveyard, on top of the other cards.
- 10/1/2008: Say you're the owner of both a permanent and an Aura that's attached to it. If both the permanent and the Aura are destroyed at the same time (by Akroma's Vengeance, for example), you decide the order they're put into your graveyard. If just the enchanted permanent is destroyed, it's put into your graveyard first. Then, after state-based actions are checked, the Aura (which is no longer attached to anything) is put into your graveyard on top of it.
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Creature - Human Cleric Shaman 1/1, 1B (2)
{T}, Sacrifice a creature: Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.
{1}{U}{U}, Sacrifice a creature: Counter target creature spell.1
"The Shamans of Marit Lage do her bidding in secret, but they do it gladly." -Halvor Arenson, Kjeldoran Priest
Illus. Cornelius Brudi
Gatherer Card Rulings [Nov 2009]
- 4/1/2008: A "creature spell" is any spell with the type Creature, even if it has other types such as Artifact or Enchantment. Older cards of type Summon are also Creature spells.
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Instant, B (1)
As an additional cost to cast Burnt Offering, sacrifice a creature.
Add X mana in any combination of {B} and/or {R} to your mana pool, where X is the sacrificed creature's converted mana cost.1
"My foes serve me twice: in dying, and in death." -Lim-Dûl, the Necromancer
Illus. Daniel Gelon
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Enchantment - Aura, 1B (2)
Enchant creature you control
Whenever enchanted creature attacks and isn't blocked, you may have it assign no combat damage this turn. If you do, defending player discards a card at random.1
Illus. Margaret Organ-Kean
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Enchantment - Aura, 1B (2)
Enchant creature card in a graveyard
When Dance of the Dead enters the battlefield, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with Dance of the Dead." Return enchanted creature card to the battlefield tapped under your control and attach Dance of the Dead to it. When Dance of the Dead leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it.
Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.
At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, that player may pay {1}{B}. If he or she does, untap that creature.1
Illus. Randy Gallegos
Gatherer Card Rulings [Nov 2009]
- 10/4/2004: If more than one Dance of the Dead ends up on a creature, each contributes a +1/+1. But you only have to pay the untap cost once. You may pay for each one, however, and untap the card more than once during upkeep.
- 4/1/2008: This is a new wording. Dance of the Dead is now an Aura. You target a creature card in a graveyard when you cast it. It enters the battlefield attached to that card. Then it returns that card to the battlefield, and attaches itself to that card again (since the card is treated as a new object on the battlefield).
- 4/1/2008: Once the creature is returned to the battlefield, Dance of the Dead can't be attached to anything other than it (unless Dance of the Dead somehow manages to put a different creature onto the battlefield). Attempting to move Dance of the Dead to another creature won't work.
- 4/1/2008: If the creature card put onto the battlefield has Protection from Black (or anything that prevents this from legally being attached), this won’t be able to attach to it. Then this will go to the graveyard as a State-Based Action, causing the creature to be sacrificed. This is a change from recent functionality.
- 4/1/2008: A "creature card" is any card with the type Creature, even if it has other types such as Artifact, Enchantment, or Land. Older cards of type Summon are also Creature cards.
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Instant, 2B (3)
Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.1
"Will not the mountains quake and hills melt at the coming of the darkness? Share this vision with your enemies, Lim-Dûl, and they shall wither." -Leshrac, Walker of Night
Illus. Drew Tucker
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Instant, B (1)
Add {B}{B}{B} to your mana pool.
"Leshrac, my liege, grant me the power I am due." - Lim-Dûl, the Necromancer
Illus. Justin Hampton
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Instant, B (1)
Name a card. Exile the top six cards of your library, then reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal the named card. Put that card into your hand and exile all other cards revealed this way.1
Illus. Rob Alexander
Gatherer Card Rulings [Nov 2009]
- 10/4/2004: There is no way to make this card affect your opponent. It affects "you", and "you" means the player of the spell. It has no targets.
- 10/4/2004: You must name a card that actually exists in the game of Magic.
- 10/1/2008: You don't name a card until Demonic Consultation resolves.
- 10/1/2008: If you don't reveal the named card (perhaps because it was in the top six cards of your library), you'll end up exiling your entire library. You don't lose the game at that point, but will lose the next time you're instructed to draw a card.
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Creature - Zombie 3/4, 3BB (5)
At end of combat, put a paralyzation counter on all creatures blocking or blocked by Dread Wight and tap those creatures. They gain "If this creature has a paralyzation counter on it, it doesn't untap during its controller's untap step" and "{4}: Remove a paralyzation counter from this creature."1
Illus. Daniel Gelon
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Creature - Wall X/X, 3B (4)
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Drift of the Dead's power and toughness are each equal to the number of snow lands you control.1
"Take their dead, and entomb them in the snow. Risen, they shall serve a new purpose." -Lim-Dûl, the Necromancer
Illus. Brian Snõddy
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Enchantment - Aura, BB (2)
Enchant creature (Target a creature as you cast this. This card enters the battlefield attached to that creature.)
Enchanted creature has fear. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)1
"Even the bravest of warriors yet knows the dark clutch of fright upon his stalwart heart." -Lim-Dûl, the Necromancer
Illus. Rick Emond
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Creature - Insect 2/2, 2B (3)
Cumulative upkeep {1} (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)
Flow of Maggots can't be blocked by non-Wall creatures.1
"The very earth seemed alive and made a sound like the writhing of the damned." -Lucilde Fiksdotter, Leader of the Order of the White Shield
Illus. Ron Spencer
Gatherer Card Rulings [Nov 2009]
- 10/1/2008: Paying cumulative upkeep is always optional. If it's not paid, the permanent with cumulative upkeep is sacrificed. Partial payments of the total cumulative upkeep cost can't be made. For example, if a permanent with "cumulative upkeep {1}" has three age counters on it when its cumulative upkeep ability triggers, it gets another age counter and then its controller chooses to either pay {4} or sacrifice the permanent.
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Creature - Spirit 3/1, 2B (3)
Foul Familiar can't block.
{B}, Pay 1 life: Return Foul Familiar to its owner's hand.1
"Serve me, and live forever." -Lim-Dûl, the Necromancer
Illus. Anson Maddocks
Gatherer Card Rulings [Nov 2009]
- 10/4/2004: The ability can only be activated while this card is on the battlefield.
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Creature - Zombie 2/2, 1BB (3)
{T}, Sacrifice Gangrenous Zombies: Gangrenous Zombies deals 1 damage to each creature and each player. If you control a snow Swamp, Gangrenous Zombies deals 2 damage to each creature and each player instead.1
Illus. Brian Snõddy
Gatherer Card Rulings [Nov 2009]
- 10/4/2004: Whether it does 1 or 2 damage is checked on resolution.
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Sorcery, 1B (2)
Until end of turn, whenever a creature you control attacks and isn't blocked, you may choose to have it deal damage equal to its power to a target creature. If you do, it assigns no combat damage this turn.1
Remove the guardians to ensure your victory.
Illus. Anson Maddocks
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Instant, B (1)
Target creature can't be regenerated this turn.
Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.1
One foot in the grave, firmly planted.
Illus. Drew Tucker
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Enchantment, 1BB (3)
When Hecatomb enters the battlefield, sacrifice Hecatomb unless you sacrifice four creatures.
Tap an untapped Swamp you control: Hecatomb deals 1 damage to target creature or player.1
Illus. NéNé Thomas
Gatherer Card Rulings [Nov 2009]
- 10/4/2004: If you have less than 4 creatures, you do not partially sacrifice. You pay 4 creatures or none.
- 10/4/2004: The sacrifice is done as a triggered ability just after it enters the battlefield. It is not done on casting.
- 10/4/2004: You choose whether to sacrifice creatures or not on resolution. If not, then you sacrifice Hecatomb. You can choose to not sacrifice creatures if you no longer control this card on resolution.
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Creature - Shade 1/2, 3B (4)
{B}: Hoar Shade gets +1/+1 until end of turn.1
"The creature we fought in the western waste was doubly dangerous: mortally wounded, it rebounded and attacked again." -Disa the Restless, journal entry
Illus. Richard Thomas
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Instant, XB (1)
Target creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn.
"From the mouths of my servants, my voice shall emerge to shake the souls of my foes." -Lim-Dûl, the Necromancer
Illus. Mark Poole
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