Lurking Evil

Enchantment, BBB (3)

Pay half your life, rounded up: Lurking Evil becomes a 4/4 Horror creature with flying.

"Ash is our air, darkness our flesh." -Phyrexian Scriptures

Illus. Scott Kirschner

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• 10/4/2004: If you have zero or negative life, half your life is zero, so it costs nothing to use the ability.
• 10/4/2004: When it turns into a creature, it is no longer an enchantment.
• 8/1/2008: A noncreature permanent that turns into a creature is subject to the "summoning sickness" rule: It can only attack, and its {T} abilities can only be activated, if its controller has continuously controlled that permanent since the beginning of his or her most recent turn.

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander