Malicious Eclipse

Malicious Eclipse

Mana Cost: {1}{B}{B}

Type: Sorcery

Oracle Text:
All creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn. If a creature an opponent controls would die this turn, exile it instead.

Power/Toughness: -/-

Rarity: uncommon

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Expansion: The Lost Caverns of Ixalan

Price ( USD): $0.18

USD: $0.18 · EUR: €0.09

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Character Background

Malicious Eclipse is a compact, brutal board sweep that best fits control and midrange shells that want a cheap, tempo-positive answer to go-wide strategies: for {1}{B}{B} it turns most 2/2s and smaller into dust and turns opponent deaths into exile so their graveyard shenanigans and death triggers are neutered. Because it’s sorcery-speed you plan around proactive turns—cast it on your opponent’s main phase to clear tokens or after blocks to wipe attackers—so it shines against aggro/token metas and as a tempo reset in grindy games. A great synergy is with aristocrat-style cards: your own creatures still die normally, so including Blood Artist, Carrion Feeder, or cheap sacrifice outlets like Village Rites turns your sacrifice/ value engine up while opponents lose recursion; alternatively pair it with Reanimate-style recursion to reclaim your own threats and deny theirs. Deckbuilding tip: slot Malicious Eclipse in lists that already run graveyard interaction and a plan to close the game post-clear, and bring it in against token or persist/recur-heavy decks.

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