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Nether Traitor

Creature — SpiritBlack manaBlack mana

Recursion priced per-trigger rather than per-turn, which is the whole engine. The graveyard-to-battlefield clause keys on any other creature your side loses, so the cost is paid in mana but the fuel is attrition: every time a body dies, you get the option to bring this one back for a single black. In a deck built to sacrifice creatures repeatedly (an aristocrats shell, a token engine, anything with a free outlet), it doubles as a reusable death-trigger and a reusable piece of fodder in the same card, looping as fast as the mana and the deaths come. The evasion is what makes the recursion worth chasing: shadow keeps the body in its own combat lane, untouchable by anything that lacks the keyword, so a 1/1 that comes back over and over reads as an inevitable clock instead of a chump. The two abilities pull against each other and serve the same plan: the evasion keeps it attacking, the recursion keeps it coming back, and haste means each return is immediately relevant. Among the black creatures built to be sacrificed and resurrected on a loop, none asks less to do it: no tribal text, no exile clause, no tap requirement, just a black mana and a creature already on its way to the yard.

Nether Traitor (tsp)
TSP · #120rare
Pricing
Normal: $10.66
Foil: $27.65
Oracle Text

Rules text

Haste Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.) Whenever another creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay Black mana. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
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

Other printings

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