Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Dark Ascension Spoilers Part 3: Black

Black's turn on the wheel with this edition, for a small set though we saw some good stuff last year, now will it follow up with this small set, let's find out.

#54) Black Cat - 1 and a black for a 1/1 that when it dies a target opponent discards a card, interesting, but not desirable.

#55) Chosen of Markov/Markov's Servant - So the first DFC of this color a 2/2 that you tap to tap a vampire and transform it, costs 2 and a black and changes into a vanilla 4/4 no thanks.

#56) Curse of Misfortunes - 4 and a black for a curse that searches out other curses, rare at that so it makes it a lot easier personally, interesting but it only searches for curses you don't have on the field.

#57) Curse of Thirst - A curse that deals damage equal to the number of curses on one player during their upkeep, right costs 4 and a black and is a common, sorry.

#58) Deadly Allure - 1 black mana for a combat trick that grants deathtouch and forces a blocker to block, not bad, has a flashback cost of 1 green mana at that so Black/Green looks nice now, other then that limited has this one.

#59) Death's Caress - 3, black, black for a sorcery that destroys a target creature but if it was a human you gain life equal to it's toughness, lame much.

#60) Falkenrath Torturer - 2 and a black for a 2/1 common that you can sacrifice a creature to gain flying, if it was a human put a +1/+1 counter on him, really if he had deathtouch he'd remind me of a young Vampire Nighthawk 


#61) Farbog Bonefinger - 4 and a black for a 2/2 that when it enters the battlefield, target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn, decent if your playing zombies in limited.

#62) Fiend of the Shadows - Intro pack rare no 3, costs 3, Black, Black and is a Vampire Wizard, major beef with this is the mana cost is a high one considering the fact we've got better rares already in this set.

#63) Geralf's Messenger - Triple black for a 3/2 that enters the battlefield tapped, has undying and when it enters the battlefield target player loses 2 life, did i mention this is a rare too, wow 2 rares in a row here.

#64) Gravecrawler - Buy a box promo card, is a 2/1 zombie that costs 1 black mana, can't block but it can be cast from the graveyard as long as you control a zombie, sweet.

#65) Gravepurge - 2 and a black for a instant common that puts any number of target creatures on top of it's owner's library, draw a card too, great recursion.

#66) Gruesome Discovery - 2, Black, Black for a sorcery that is a common, makes a player 2 cards, has morbid where morbid states if a creature died this turn, choose two cards from that player's hand and that player discards them, really limited material here.

#67) Harrowing Journey - 4 and a black for a sorcery that draws 3 cards, that player loses 3 life too, wouldn't ever play this outta limited.

#68) Highborn Ghoul - 2 black for a 2/1 intimidate common, maybe

#69) Increasing Ambition - 4 and a black mana for a tutor effect that fetches one card from your library of your choice, but if it was cast from a graveyard search for 2 cards this way, put them into your hand and shuffle the library, but the flashback cost is kinda high at 7 and a black, EDH material here.

#70) Mikaeus, the Unhallowed - What's this a black legendary, oh wait it's mikaeus just undead, yes he died along with most humans, transforming into a zombie, 3, Black, Black, Black mythic rare, 5/5 for a Intimidate, destroy any humans whom deal combat damage to you, grants +1/+1 and undying to all non humans, so making this worthwhile is sweet, this happens to be one of the better mythics for the set.

#71) Ravenous Demon/Archdemon of Greed - Prerelease card, the demons are 4/4 and 9/9 with the first one transforming when you can sacrifice a human at sorcery speed, the second having trample, flying and a upkeep cost to sacrifice a human otherwise it taps, deals 9 damage to you, wow.

#72) Sightless Ghoul - 3 and a black for a no blocker that has undying and is a 2/2 no thanks


#73) Reap the Seagraf - 2 and a black for a zombie creature token generator with a flashback cost of 4 and a blue mana

#74) Skirsdag Flayer - 1 and a black mana for a common that's a 1/1, pay 3 and a black, tap it and sacrifice a human, you can destroy target creature, am i reading this right is this a creature with doom blade on it, nice limited material here.

#75) Spiteful Shadows - 1 and a black for a aura enchantment  that attaches to target creature, whenever it deals damage, double it, lame much

#76) Tragic Slip - 1 black for a instant speed common that gives a creature -1/-1 until end of turn, with a morbid ability that bumps it up to -13/-13 until end of turn, i think this is going to end up replacing Dismember in construted honestly.

#77) Undying Evil - 1 black for mana for a instant that grants undying until end of turn, wow way to promote the mechanic.


#78) Vengeful Vampire - 3/2 flyer, undying 6 drop not in my formats.

#79) Wakedancer - 2 and a black for a 2/2 that has morbid when it enters the battlefield if something died, put a 2/2 zombie creature token on your side of the field, not bad honestly.

#80) Zombie Apocalypse - Did i read this right, a sorcery that costs 3, Black, Black, Black and returns all zombies you control from the graveyard to the battlefield tapped, as well as blowing up all humans sweet

Well that's all she wrote for part 3, tommorow will be part 4 as promised.

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