Blighted Blackthorn
Lorwyn Eclipsed 90 • common
- Set
- Lorwyn Eclipsed
- Collector number
- 90
- Rarity
- Common
- Mana cost
- 4 generic mana black mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- Black
- Artist
- Omar Rayyan
- Market price
- $0.15
What it does
Whenever this creature enters or attacks, you may blight 2. If you do, you draw a card and lose 1 life. (To blight 2, put two -1/-1 counters on a creature you control.)
It bears a forbidden fruit.
Where you can play it
- StandardLegal
- PioneerLegal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperLegal
- BrawlLegal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Blighted Blackthorn was released as part of the Lorwyn Eclipsed set, an expansion that deepened the darker, more folklore-driven themes of the Lorwyn-Shadowmoor block. The card reflects the set's central tension between the idyllic, vibrant world of Lorwyn and its cyclical transformation into the shadowy, corrupted realm of Shadowmoor. Mechanically and aesthetically, it serves as a representation of the blighted, encroaching flora that characterizes the plane's more unsettling metamorphosis.
The artistic direction for this series leaned heavily into a gothic, painterly aesthetic designed to evoke a sense of eerie, fairy-tale dread. The illustration for Blighted Blackthorn emphasizes the sharp, visceral nature of the brambles, moving away from the high-fantasy tropes of the time to favor a more grounded, textured look. Upon its introduction, the card was noted by players for its thematic integration into the set's graveyard-recursion mechanics and its contribution to the overall atmosphere of the block.
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