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Dead Weight
Oracle Text
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets -2/-2.
Card Details
Mana CostCharacter Background
Dead Weight is the kind of one-mana, low-variance answer that best supports a tempo or midrange game plan: it cheaply neutralizes early threats, lets your creatures trade up, and buys time for your late-game inevitabilities. Functionally it turns a 2/2 into a corpse and a 3/3 into a favorable trade, so include it in black limited decks and mono-black or sacrifice-leaning builds where cheap interaction matters. A concrete synergy: pair Dead Weight with sacrifice outlets like Viscera Seer, Mayhem Devil, or Blood Artist—reducing a blocker to 0 toughness becomes a repeatable resource or a way to trigger drain effects. It’s also a solid sideboard card against token or go-wide strategies and slots easily into budget decks because of its low cost and common rarity. Be mindful that it’s an Aura — it can be bounced or killed to save a creature — so back it with removal or ways to recur enchantments if you want more resilience.
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Character Background
Dead Weight is the kind of one-mana, low-variance answer that best supports a tempo or midrange game plan: it cheaply neutralizes early threats, lets your creatures trade up, and buys time for your late-game inevitabilities. Functionally it turns a 2/2 into a corpse and a 3/3 into a favorable trade, so include it in black limited decks and mono-black or sacrifice-leaning builds where cheap interaction matters. A concrete synergy: pair Dead Weight with sacrifice outlets like Viscera Seer, Mayhem Devil, or Blood Artist—reducing a blocker to 0 toughness becomes a repeatable resource or a way to trigger drain effects. It’s also a solid sideboard card against token or go-wide strategies and slots easily into budget decks because of its low cost and common rarity. Be mindful that it’s an Aura — it can be bounced or killed to save a creature — so back it with removal or ways to recur enchantments if you want more resilience.
Generated using gpt-5-mini · Updated at 2026-05-16 20:40:45 UTC