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Blight Mound

Enchantment2 generic manaBlack mana

Pests were designed as the small change of a black-green sacrifice economy, and this enchantment is the piece that decides what all those loose coins add up to. On its own the death trigger is a slow drip: a nontoken creature dies, you get one 1/1 that gives a point of life on its way out, and the loop threatens to spin without ever going anywhere. The static anthem is what turns the ledger into a clock. Once your Pests attack with +1/+0 and menace, the token swarm stops being incidental chump-fodder and becomes a body of evasive attackers that only grow harder to block as the board floods. The restriction to nontoken creatures dying is doing real work here: it stops the enchantment from feeding on its own Pests and inflating a runaway engine, so every new token has to be paid for with something that mattered, a sacrifice outlet's fuel or a genuine casualty in combat. That single word is the difference between a value engine and a self-contained infinite loop. What it points at is a pressure aristocrats decks rarely resolve: they are built to grind, not to close, and the death triggers pile up value while the life total stays stubbornly high. This is the rare aristocrats support card that answers the "how do you actually win" question by pushing the recycled chaff across the red zone.

Blight Mound (c21)
C21 · #363rare
Pricing
Normal: $6.30
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Attacking Pests you control get +1/+0 and have menace. Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this token dies, you gain 1 life."
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
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
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
Legal
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