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Ghastly Death Tyrant
Creature — Beholder Skeleton
When Ghastly Death Tyrant enters the battlefield, chose one:
- Disintegration Ray — Destroy target enchantment an opponent controls. You lose life equal to its converted mana cost/mana value.
- Death Ray — Creatures you control gain deathtouch until end of turn.
SaberTech on Mark Rosewater's Statements About Enchantment …
5 months ago
I initially thought that it was weird that WotC decided that black should be the tertiary colour for being able to deal with enchantments because I thought that blue was in that position with theft effects. After thinking about it for a second though, I remembered that black always had a way of dealing with enchantments through discard effects. Black's limit was that it had to deal with enchantments before they hit the board with cards like Thoughtseize and Duress, it's just that those cards can hit so many other targets beyond enchantments that it slipped my mind they they counted as black enchantment removal (more like proactive counterspells).
It has been a part of black's mechanics that it has been able to infringe on the other colours' mechanical spaces a bit as long as additional costs in the form of life or sacrificed creatures are paid. I think that's why I'm ok with targeted enchantment removal cards like Feed the Swarm. The spell is sorcery speed and saps the caster's life to give black a 2 mana spell that deals with enchantments. Compare that to cards like Thraben Charm and Heritage Reclamation, which give more options with no downside while being instants, and I think that even with targeted enchantment removal it's still pretty clear that black is third rate in providing enchantment removal options.
Again though, Withering Torment is kind of pushing it. Maybe black shouldn't be allowed access to instant speed enchantment removal without having it jump through hoops like finding a way to reanimate a creature like Ghastly Death Tyrant at instant speed?
Madnus on Official missing/incorrect card/token thread
3 years ago
Ghastly Death Tyrant (black card) is shown under Colorless when Grouped by Color.
TypicalTimmy on Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's …
3 years ago
Given how Beholders are "born", and how Death Tyrants are made, I am very sad to see Ghastly Death Tyrant is but a lowly Common.