Defile
Modern Horizons 86 • common
- Set
- Modern Horizons
- Collector number
- 86
- Rarity
- Common
- Mana cost
- black mana
- Type
- Instant
- Colors
- Black
- Artist
- Joe Slucher
- Market price
- $1.22
What it does
Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn for each Swamp you control.
The only shortcut in a bog is to the bottom.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperLegal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Defile was introduced in the 2019 expansion Modern Horizons, a set specifically designed by Wizards of the Coast to introduce new cards directly into the Modern format without them passing through a Standard-legal release. The card was conceptualized as a low-cost, scalable removal spell for black-aligned decks, mirroring the mechanical philosophy of older, graveyard-dependent cards like Nameless Inversion or Tragic Slip.
The art for the card was rendered by illustrator Igor Kieryluk. He focused on a grim, evocative depiction of decay consistent with the visual language of the game’s black mana spells. Upon release, the card was widely received by competitive players as an efficient utility tool for mono-black strategies, prized for its ability to grow in power as the game progresses and as the player commits more Swamps to the battlefield.
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