Card text
{1}{B}{B}, {T}: Target player discards a card unless they put a card from their hand on top of their library. If that player discards a card this way, this creature deals 1 damage to each creature and each player. Activate only as a sorcery.
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Mana cost
{3}{B}
Power / toughness
2/2
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Card text
{1}{B}{B}, {T}: Target player discards a card unless they put a card from their hand on top of their library. If that player discards a card this way, this creature deals 1 damage to each creature and each player. Activate only as a sorcery.
Format legality
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernNot legal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- AlchemyNot legal
About Tainted Specter
Tainted Specter (148) is a Black Creature — Specter from Mirage (MIR). It costs {3}{B}, has mana value 4 and is a 2/2. It is printed at Rare rarity. The one keyword in its text is Flying. It is legal in Legacy, Vintage, Commander and Oathbreaker.
Mirage is a main expansion, released October 1996.
Flying {1}{B}{B}, {T}: Target player discards a card unless they put a card from their hand on top of their library. If that player discards a card this way, this creature deals 1 damage to each creature and each player. Activate only as a sorcery.
Card details
- Card number
- 148
- Set
- Mirage (MIR)
- Set type
- Expansion
- Released
- 7 October 1996
- Rarity
- Rare (R)
- Printing
- Standard
- Type line
- Creature — Specter
- Colour
- Black
- Colour identity
- Black
- Mana cost
- {3}{B}
- Power / toughness
- 2/2
- Finish
- Non-foil
TCGplayer listing: Tainted Specter
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