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BlightHow it works & interactions with other cards

By the ManaCount desk· 2 min read· Masters Edition· September 10, 2007
Carte Magic Blight

Blight is one of those cards players keep asking about. Here is, in plain words, what its official text says, the rulings published by Wizards of the Coast, and the combos players actually run.

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Official card text

Enchant land When enchanted land becomes tapped, destroy it.

How it works : Blight

Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall

No additional ruling has been published for this card.

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Interactions with other cards

These cards' text mentions Blight.

Blightsteel Colossus
Blightsteel Colossus

Trample, infect, indestructible If Blightsteel Colossus would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, reveal Blightsteel Colossus and shuffle it into its owner's library instead.

Ultima, Origin of Oblivion
Ultima, Origin of Oblivion

Flying Whenever Ultima attacks, put a blight counter on target land. For as long as that land has a blight counter on it, it loses all land types and abilities and has "{T}: Add {C}." Whenever you tap a land for {C}, add an additional {C}.

Rottenmouth Viper
Rottenmouth Viper

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may sacrifice any number of nonland permanents. This spell costs {1} less to cast for each permanent sacrificed this way. Whenever this creature enters or attacks, put a blight counter on it. Then for each blight counter on it, each opponent loses 4 life unless that player sacrifices a nonland permanent of their choice or discards a card.

High Perfect Morcant
High Perfect Morcant

Whenever High Perfect Morcant or another Elf you control enters, each opponent blights 1. (They each put a -1/-1 counter on a creature they control.) Tap three untapped Elves you control: Proliferate. Activate only as a sorcery. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Sinister Gnarlbark
Sinister Gnarlbark

At the beginning of your end step, draw a card and blight 1. (Put a -1/-1 counter on a creature you control.)

Scuzzback Scrounger
Scuzzback Scrounger

At the beginning of your first main phase, you may blight 1. If you do, create a Treasure token. (To blight 1, put a -1/-1 counter on a creature you control. A Treasure token is an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Soul Immolation
Soul Immolation

As an additional cost to cast this spell, blight X. X can't be greater than the greatest toughness among creatures you control. (Put X -1/-1 counters on a creature you control.) Soul Immolation deals X damage to each opponent and each creature they control.

Auntie Ool, Cursewretch
Auntie Ool, Cursewretch

Ward—Blight 2. (To blight 2, a player puts two -1/-1 counters on a creature they control.) Whenever one or more -1/-1 counters are put on a creature, draw a card if you control that creature. If you don't control it, its controller loses 1 life.

Dawnhand Dissident
Dawnhand Dissident

{T}, Blight 1: Surveil 1. {T}, Blight 2: Exile target card from a graveyard. During your turn, you may cast creature spells from among cards you own exiled with this creature by removing three counters from among creatures you control in addition to paying their other costs.

Grub, Storied Matriarch // Grub, Notorious Auntie
Grub, Storied Matriarch // Grub, Notorious Auntie

Menace Whenever this creature enters or transforms into Grub, Storied Matriarch, return up to one target Goblin card from your graveyard to your hand. At the beginning of your first main phase, you may pay {R}. If you do, transform Grub. Menace Whenever Grub attacks, you may blight 1. If you do, create a tapped and attacking token that's a copy of the blighted creature, except it has "At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice this token." At the beginning of your first main phase, you may pay {B}. If you do, transform Grub.

Boggart Mischief
Boggart Mischief

When this enchantment enters, you may blight 1. If you do, create two 1/1 black and red Goblin creature tokens. (To blight 1, put a -1/-1 counter on a creature you control.) Whenever a Goblin creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Burning Curiosity
Burning Curiosity

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may blight 1. (You may put a -1/-1 counter on a creature you control.) Exile the top two cards of your library. If this spell's additional cost was paid, exile the top three cards instead. Until the end of your next turn, you may play those cards.

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