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Kederekt Parasite

Creature — HorrorBlack mana

The two-color tax made literal. This punishes opponents for the most fundamental thing they do in a game of Magic: drawing cards. But the trigger only fires while you control a red permanent, which is the whole tension of the design. A one-mana black body that does nothing on its own, gated behind a color it cannot produce, is a deliberate signpost pointing players toward Black-Red as a deckbuilding identity rather than a piece of removal or a clock. The damage is incidental (one point per draw, dealt by an optional triggered ability that pings on each opponent's draw), and against a deck that draws naturally it accrues quietly, but the real payload arrives when paired with a draw-forcing effect: hand each opponent extra cards and the Parasite turns generosity into a noose. That combination is the only context where it stops being a curiosity and becomes a finisher, and it explains why the card reads as a build-around rather than a staple. The Horror is a creature in name and a recurring damage trigger in practice, the kind of color-pair payoff that asks you to commit to two colors before it does anything, and rewards you precisely as much as your deck weaponizes its opponents' card flow.

Kederekt Parasite (dsc)
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Whenever an opponent draws a card, if you control a red permanent, you may have this creature deal 1 damage to that player.
Legalities

Format Status

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

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