You can get a lot of cards if you can cheat this out and give it haste. This is kind of a meme, right? But I’ll keep playing Elder Brain until it works. Ready to see how your favorite black card draw spells stack up or looking for some new options for your deck? #42. That’s true for all Magic cards, but stapling a loss of some kind onto an effect makes it all a bit more fraught. Black card draw spells have to hit the right spot on the balance of consideration of curve and power. That means black card draw comes at a price, which sometimes can be quite steep. Since Alpha, black has been a color of explosive mana and card draw connected to life loss.
Sign in Blood (Magic 2010) | Illustration by Howard Lyon
