Hideous Visage

Mass evasion was an early-era staple, and this is the black-aligned, intimidate-flavored take on it: a one-shot team buff that converts a wide board into a closing swing. The catch is that intimidate is conditional in a way trample or flying never are. In a true mono-black build, your attackers all share black, so intimidate only locks out opponents who happen to lack black creatures and artifacts; against another black deck, it does almost nothing. The effect rewards a color-light board and punishes mirror situations, an odd shape for an evasion enabler and the reason intimidate aged out of the design vocabulary in favor of menace, a keyword that ignores the defender's colors entirely. As a sorcery, it commits you before combat math is locked, so it functions less as a combat trick than as a pre-attack declaration: cast it, then swing into a board you have already decided can't profitably block. This is a finisher for a wide aggressive board that needs one push through, and not much else. Where the team is small or the opponent shares your color, the spell evaporates, which is precisely the friction that kept this style of mass-evasion enabler from ever becoming a fixture.