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Dread Warlock

Creature — Human Wizard Warlock1 generic manaBlack manaBlack mana

Evasion that checks the blocker's color rather than relying on a keyword: this 2/2 slips past everything except the one color most likely to be sitting across the table from it in a mirror. That conditional is what prices the body. Against white, blue, red, or green, it is a genuinely unblockable attacker for three mana; against another black deck, it is a vanilla creature that trades into chump blockers like anything else. The design folds the evasion's reliability into a metagame bet rather than a fixed cost, which is a quieter, older way to balance an unblockable attacker than the usual route of shrinking the body or raising the price. The structural cousin is the protection-from-a-color line of design, where a single color is carved out as the exception: same idea, inverted, since this carves out one color as the only thing that can block rather than the only thing that can't. The flavor tracks the math cleanly: a warlock dressed in dread who walks through anyone not already steeped in the same darkness. It reads as a small creature with an asterisk, but the asterisk is doing all the work, and how much work depends entirely on which colors share the table.

Dread Warlock (m10)
M10 · #94common
Pricing
Normal: $0.07
Foil: $0.35
Oracle Text

Rules text

This creature can't be blocked except by black creatures.
Legalities

Format Status

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