Tragic Slip
Eternal Masters 109 • common
- Set
- Eternal Masters
- Collector number
- 109
- Rarity
- Common
- Mana cost
- black mana
- Type
- Instant
- Colors
- Black
- Artist
- Christopher Moeller
- Market price
- $0.33
What it does
Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
Morbid — That creature gets -13/-13 until end of turn instead if a creature died this turn.
Linger on death's door and risk being invited in.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperLegal
- BrawlLegal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Tragic Slip was originally introduced in the Dark Ascension expansion for Magic: The Gathering in 2012, designed by artist Johannes Voss. The card features a morbid mechanic that allows players to give a creature -1/-1 until end of turn, which increases to -13/-13 if a creature has died that turn. This design was intended to evoke a sense of fatal clumsiness or a sudden, ironic demise, perfectly capturing the Gothic horror aesthetic of the Innistrad block.
The Eternal Masters printing, released in 2016, features the same haunting illustration by Johannes Voss, which portrays a figure slipping on a pool of blood. This version of the card was selected for the set to provide players with a powerful, low-cost removal tool within the high-power, curated environment of Eternal Masters. The set was created to give players access to iconic cards from the game’s history, and Tragic Slip remains a staple in various formats due to its efficient, skill-testing design.
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