Darkblast
Mana Cost:
Type: Instant
Oracle Text:
Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
Dredge 3 (If you would draw a card, you may mill three cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)
Power/Toughness: -/-
Rarity: uncommon
Prints: View all prints (1) →
Expansion: Ravnica Remastered
Price ( USD): $1.00
USD: $1.00 · EUR: €0.70
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Character Background
Darkblast is deceptively simple: a one-mana instant that hands you cheap, flexible tempo while also powering a graveyard-value plan. In play it functions as efficient spot removal to shrink or finish off early blockers and aggressive creatures—perfect for gaining incremental tempo in the early turns or trading up in combat—while its Dredge 3 clause turns it into a recurring resource for dedicated graveyard strategies. Build it into a dredge/value shell where self-mill engines and recursion matter: pair copies with classic dredge enablers like Stinkweed Imp or Golgari Grave-Troll and follow up with creatures that benefit from or return from the yard (Bloodghast, Gravecrawler) or sacrifice synergies. In more midrange or aggressive black lists, treat Darkblast as a one-mana interaction that preserves life and board presence; in dredge decks it’s insurance that keeps removal coming as you mill, so include enough graveyard enablers and discard/mill triggers to reliably activate the Dredge return.
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