Card text
As an additional cost to cast black permanent spells, you may pay 2 life. Those spells cost {B} less to cast if you paid life this way. This effect reduces only the amount of black mana you pay.
Whenever you cast a black permanent spell, target creature you control gets +1/+1 and gains menace until end of turn.
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Mana cost
{2}{B}{B}
Power / toughness
4/4
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Card text
As an additional cost to cast black permanent spells, you may pay 2 life. Those spells cost {B} less to cast if you paid life this way. This effect reduces only the amount of black mana you pay.
Whenever you cast a black permanent spell, target creature you control gets +1/+1 and gains menace until end of turn.
Format legality
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerLegal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- AlchemyNot legal
About Defiler of Flesh
Defiler of Flesh (90) is a Black Creature — Phyrexian Horror from Dominaria United (DMU). It costs {2}{B}{B}, has mana value 4 and is a 4/4. It is printed at Rare rarity. The one keyword in its text is Menace. It is legal in Pioneer, Modern, Legacy and Vintage and 5 more formats.
Dominaria United is a main expansion, released September 2022. Defiler of Flesh has 2 other cards in the database, listed further down the page.
Menace As an additional cost to cast black permanent spells, you may pay 2 life. Those spells cost {B} less to cast if you paid life this way. This effect reduces only the amount of black mana you pay. Whenever you cast a black permanent spell, target creature you control gets +1/+1 and gains menace until end of turn.
Card details
- Card number
- 90
- Set
- Dominaria United (DMU)
- Set type
- Expansion
- Released
- 9 September 2022
- Rarity
- Rare (R)
- Printing
- Standard
- Type line
- Creature — Phyrexian Horror
- Colour
- Black
- Colour identity
- Black
- Mana cost
- {2}{B}{B}
- Power / toughness
- 4/4
- Finish
- Non-foil
TCGplayer listing: Defiler of Flesh
Other printings of Defiler of Flesh in Dominaria United
The same card in other art and frames from this set — priced in the United States.
Defiler of Flesh in other sets
Every other printing with this name, one per set.
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