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Black Dragon

Creature — Dragon5 generic manaBlack manaBlack mana

The Acid Breath trigger is doing the interesting work here, and it maps a familiar spell effect onto a body. A creature entering the battlefield and handing an opponent's creature -3/-3 is functionally a stapled removal instant grafted to a 4/4 flier: pay the seven and you get both halves in one card, which is the whole appeal of an enters-the-battlefield removal Dragon. The -3/-3 is temporary, so it kills small and midsized threats outright but only shrinks the big ones, meaning the trigger reads more as a tempo swing than a guaranteed answer to a top-end blocker. That distinction matters more than the raw stats suggest. The card slots cleanly into the long tradition of set-defining common and uncommon Dragons, where a flier with an evasive body and a built-in removal effect trades up on the turn it lands. It is not a card that rewards deckbuilding around it so much as one that pays you flat rate for including it: a hard-to-block clock and a piece of interaction, bundled. For players drawn to the Dungeons & Dragons flavor, it also functions as a straightforward reference to the black dragon's acid breath from the source material, translated into mechanics without any of the awkwardness those crossovers sometimes carry.

Black Dragon (prm)
PRM · #92722uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.25
Foil: $0.32
Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying Acid Breath — When this creature enters, target creature an opponent controls gets -3/-3 until end of turn.
Legalities

Format Status

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

Other printings

3 sets
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