If you cast this as normal during your main phase, it will enter the battlefield and you’ll receive priority. If no abilities trigger because of this, you can activate its ability immediately, before any other player has a chance to remove it from the battlefield.
This printing is one of 3 catalogued treatments from VMA — the lineup includes Foil and Nonfoil alongside the standard finish. Across our catalog the Rarix library tracks every variant in the same family so collectors can compare price, scarcity and demand inside a single lineage.
Card #137 of *Vintage Masters*, the set that shipped alongside the June 2014 Vintage Masters release.
Card type: Enchantment, color identity black, printed at rare. Rares occupy the bottom-of-pack rare slot in standard boosters. Mana cost: {2}{B} (3 converted).
Legal in Legacy and Vintage. Banned in Commander. This printing is on Wizards of the Coast's Reserved List — Wizards has committed never to reprint cards on that list, which underwrites a structural scarcity floor on every surviving copy.
Illustrated by Jeff Laubenstein. Rarix catalogs 71 other cards credited to this artist.
Magic: The Gathering · ™ & © Wizards of the Coast · Illus. Jeff Laubenstein
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