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Curse of Leeches // Leeching Lurker

Enchantment — Aura Curse // Creature — Leech Horror

The day-and-night mechanic usually turns a creature stronger under one condition and weaker under the other; here the two faces are not even the same card type. Under night, you get a lifelinking body: a straightforward attacker whose combat damage refills you. When day breaks, that body evaporates into an Aura pinned to an opponent, draining a point off them and feeding it to you each upkeep. The transform clause does the clever bit: as it flips into the curse side, it reattaches to a player, so the card is not merely changing stats but changing what it targets and how it wins. That makes the daybound/nightbound cycle read less like a power dial and more like a strategic mode switch, from creature-based pressure to a passive, uninteractive life-drain that no longer needs to attack into anything. The trigger conditions cut against the natural rhythm of a game: spending your turn without casting a spell pushes toward night and the creature, while a busy two-spell turn tips it back to day and the curse. A leech that is a body when you are behind on the board and a slow bleed when the board is stalled: the flavor of a parasite that swaps forms depending on how much blood is available is doing real mechanical work here, not just riding along with the art.

Curse of Leeches // Leeching Lurker (dbl)
DBL · #94rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.31
Foil: $2.46
Oracle Text

Rules text

Enchant player As this permanent transforms into Curse of Leeches, attach it to a player. At the beginning of enchanted player's upkeep, they lose 1 life and you gain 1 life. Daybound (If a player casts no spells during their own turn, it becomes night next turn.) // Lifelink Nightbound (If a player casts at least two spells during their own turn, it becomes day next 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
Legal
Printings elsewhere

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