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Blightcaster

Creature — Human Wizard3 generic manaBlack mana

The trigger fires on casting, not resolution, which is the detail that makes this 2/3 a repeatable removal engine rather than a static threat. Each enchantment you put on the stack offers a -2/-2 to a chosen creature, so the card folds your enchantment count into a kill total: cheap auras, sagas, pingers, anything with a permanent enchantment type pulls double duty as removal fuel. The math compounds in a deck stacked with low-cost enchantments, where a single turn's worth of casts can chain enough -2/-2 effects to take down something genuinely large, or pick a board of small bodies apart one at a time. The constraint is that the Wizard does nothing on an empty hand; the body is just a vessel, and the value exists only as long as you keep feeding it enchantments to cast. That dependence is the appeal for a particular kind of builder: it turns a deck whose enchantments would otherwise be incremental value into one where every enchantment is also a removal spell waiting on a target. It sits in the lineage of black creatures that convert a deck's natural game plan into creature-shrinking attrition, here keyed to an enchantment subtheme rather than to lifeloss or sacrifice. And because -2/-2 reduces toughness rather than destroying, it slips past indestructible entirely: a threat that shrugs off removal spells still dies when its toughness hits zero, which is the kind of creature the stack of triggers is built to grind down.

Blightcaster (m14)
M14 · #86uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.08
Foil: $0.38
Oracle Text

Rules text

Whenever you cast an enchantment spell, you may have target creature get -2/-2 until end of turn.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
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
N/A
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Other printings

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