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Accursed Spirit

Creature — Spirit3 generic manaBlack mana

Filler with a delivery mechanism. The 3/2 body for four mana sits well below the curve for a creature meant to attack, and the design knows it: intimidate is what justifies the slot. Against most decks that aren't running black or a meaningful artifact-creature count, those three points connect every turn, which is the whole pitch. The keyword is the generalized descendant of fear, the original evasion mechanic that lets a creature slip past everything but artifact and black blockers. Intimidate took that idea and untethered it from black, keying the evasion off the attacker's own color so the same template ports to every color rather than staying a black-only quirk. The trade is that the body is fragile (two toughness folds to nearly any removal, or to a chump that happens to share its color) and the evasion collapses entirely in a mirror or against the artifact-heavy decks that turn up in every era. As a piece of common-rarity black aggression, it is a reasonable curve-topper for a beatdown shell that wants reliable damage and nothing more. It asks for no setup and rewards no building around; it hits, or it doesn't, depending on what is across the table.

Accursed Spirit (m14)
M14 · #83common
Pricing
Normal: $0.15
Foil: $0.28
Oracle Text

Rules text

Intimidate (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
Brawl
N/A
Historic
N/A
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
N/A
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
N/A
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