Roiling Horror
Planar Chaos 79 • rare
- Set
- Planar Chaos
- Collector number
- 79
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana cost
- 3 generic mana black mana black mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- Black
- Artist
- John Avon
- Market price
- $0.36
What it does
Roiling Horror's power and toughness are each equal to your life total minus the life total of an opponent with the most life.
Suspend X—X mana black mana black mana black mana. X can't be 0. (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay X mana black mana black mana black mana and exile it with X time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost. It has haste.)
Whenever a time counter is removed from this card while it's exiled, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Roiling Horror was released in 2007 as part of the Planar Chaos set for the Magic: The Gathering trading card game. The set explored an alternate-reality theme where the color pie of the game was reimagined, resulting in this card being printed as a black creature that utilizes the suspend mechanic, a feature more commonly associated with red or blue cards during that era of development.
The card was illustrated by the artist Dave Allsop. His design choices reflect the visceral, otherworldly aesthetic prevalent in the Planar Chaos set, focusing on the distorted, shifting nature of the creature to emphasize its mechanical identity as a card that emerges from the void of the suspend zone to disrupt the battlefield.
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