Black Knight

Black Knight (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Jeff A. Menges

First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.) Protection from white (This creature can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, or enchanted by anything white.)

Black Knight (Fourth Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.) Protection from white (This creature can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, or enchanted by anything white.)

Battle doesn't need a purpose; the battle is its own purpose. You don't ask why a plague spreads or a field burns. Don't ask why I fight.

Black Knight (Foreign Black Border)
Jeff A. Menges

First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.) Protection from white (This creature can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, or enchanted by anything white.)

Black Knight (Revised Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.) Protection from white (This creature can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, or enchanted by anything white.)

Battle doesn't need a purpose; the battle is its own purpose. You don't ask why a plague spreads or a field burns. Don't ask why I fight.

Black Knight (Anthologies)
Adrian Smith

First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.) Protection from white (This creature can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, or enchanted by anything white.)

"Battle doesn't need a purpose; the battle is its own purpose. You don't ask why a plague spreads or a field burns. Don't ask why I fight."

Black Knight (Fifth Edition)
Adrian Smith

First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.) Protection from white (This creature can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, or enchanted by anything white.)

Battle doesn't need a purpose; the battle is its own purpose. You don't ask why a plague spreads or a field burns. Don't ask why I fight.

Black Knight (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Jeff A. Menges

First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.) Protection from white (This creature can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, or enchanted by anything white.)

Battle doesn't need a purpose; the battle is its own purpose. You don't ask why a plague spreads or a field burns. Don't ask why I fight.

Black Knight (The List)
Christopher Moeller

First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.) Protection from white (This creature can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, or enchanted by anything white.)

Black Knight (30th Anniversary Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.) Protection from white (This creature can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, or enchanted by anything white.)

Battle doesn't need a purpose; the battle is its own purpose. You don't ask why a plague spreads or a field burns. Don't ask why I fight.

Black Knight (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Jeff A. Menges

First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.) Protection from white (This creature can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, or enchanted by anything white.)

Black Knight (Limited Edition Alpha)
Jeff A. Menges

First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.) Protection from white (This creature can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, or enchanted by anything white.)

Battle doesn't need a purpose; the battle is its own purpose. You don't ask why a plague spreads or a field burns. Don't ask why I fight.

Black Knight (Limited Edition Beta)
Jeff A. Menges

First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.) Protection from white (This creature can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, or enchanted by anything white.)

Battle doesn't need a purpose; the battle is its own purpose. You don't ask why a plague spreads or a field burns. Don't ask why I fight.

Black Knight (Unlimited Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.) Protection from white (This creature can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, or enchanted by anything white.)

Battle doesn't need a purpose; the battle is its own purpose. You don't ask why a plague spreads or a field burns. Don't ask why I fight.

Black Knight (Friday Night Magic 2002)
Jeff A. Menges

First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.) Protection from white (This creature can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, or enchanted by anything white.)

"The chill, to him who breathed it, drew / Down with his blood, till all his heart was cold." —Alfred, Lord Tennyson, *Idyls of the King*

Black Knight (Magic 2010)
Christopher Moeller

First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.) Protection from white (This creature can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, or enchanted by anything white.)

Black Knight (Magic 2011)
Christopher Moeller

First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.) Protection from white (This creature can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, or enchanted by anything white.)

Black Knight (Collectors' Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.) Protection from white (This creature can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, or enchanted by anything white.)

Battle doesn't need a purpose; the battle is its own purpose. You don't ask why a plague spreads or a field burns. Don't ask why I fight.

Black Knight (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.) Protection from white (This creature can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, or enchanted by anything white.)

Battle doesn't need a purpose; the battle is its own purpose. You don't ask why a plague spreads or a field burns. Don't ask why I fight.

Mercenary Knight (Portal)
Adrian Smith

When this creature enters, sacrifice it unless you discard a creature card.

Nekrataal (Battle Royale Box Set)
Adrian Smith

First strike When this creature enters, destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature. That creature can't be regenerated.

"I have seen the horrors Kaervek has freed. My Betrayal is certain—but of Kaervek or of Jamuraa, I cannot say." —Jolrael

Isolation Cell (New Phyrexia)
Adrian Smith

Whenever an opponent casts a creature spell, that player loses 2 life unless they pay {2}.

"Attrition is the answer. Starve them, and let their despair be their undoing." —Sheoldred, Whispering One

Maraxus of Keld (Weatherlight)
Adrian Smith

Maraxus's power and toughness are each equal to the number of untapped artifacts, creatures, and lands you control.

"I have no master. I am chaos." —Maraxus of Keld

Wave of Terror (Weatherlight)
Adrian Smith

Cumulative upkeep {1} (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.) At the beginning of your draw step, destroy each creature with mana value equal to the number of age counters on this enchantment. They can't be regenerated.

The sea of fear has endless depths.

Loxodon Convert (New Phyrexia)
Adrian Smith

Just one drop of the glistening oil can eventually stain even a soul as stalwart as a loxodon's beyond redemption.

Gruesome Encore (Mirrodin Besieged)
Adrian Smith

Put target creature card from an opponent's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step. If that creature would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else.

Zurgo and Ojutai (March of the Machine)
Adrian Smith

Flying, haste Zurgo and Ojutai has hexproof as long as it entered this turn. Whenever one or more Dragons you control deal combat damage to a player or battle, look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order. You may return one of those Dragons to its owner's hand.

Cruel Fate (Portal)
Adrian Smith

Look at the top five cards of target opponent's library. Put one of those cards into that player's graveyard and the rest on top of their library in any order.

Breeding Pit (The List)
Adrian Smith

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this enchantment unless you pay {B}{B}. At the beginning of your end step, create a 0/1 black Thrull creature token.

The thrulls bred at a terrifying pace. In the end, they overwhelmed the Order of the Ebon Hand.

Insect (Scars of Mirrodin Tokens)
Adrian Smith

Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

Carrion Call (Scars of Mirrodin)
Adrian Smith

Create two 1/1 green Phyrexian Insect creature tokens with infect. (They deal damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

The natural order is out of order.

Tine Shrike (Mirrodin Besieged)
Adrian Smith

Flying Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

A new bird of prey—one that hunts sentience.

Earthquake (Portal)
Adrian Smith

Earthquake deals X damage to each creature without flying and each player.

Nekrataal (Eighth Edition)
Adrian Smith

First strike When this creature enters, destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature. That creature can't be regenerated.

Earthquake (Commander Anthology)
Adrian Smith

Earthquake deals X damage to each creature without flying and each player.

They fell screaming into the depths of the chasm like so many pebbles tossed down a well.

Lava Axe (Portal)
Adrian Smith

Lava Axe deals 5 damage to target player or planeswalker.

Swing your axe as a broom, to sweep away the foe.

Fallen Askari (World Championship Decks 1997)
Adrian Smith

Flanking (Whenever a creature without flanking blocks this creature, the blocking creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.) This creature can't block.

In troubled times, there are few greater sorrows than a wayward savior.

Noxious Toad (The List)
Adrian Smith

When this creature dies, each opponent discards a card.

Fallen Askari (Visions)
Adrian Smith

Flanking (Whenever a creature without flanking blocks this creature, the blocking creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.) This creature can't block.

In troubled times, there are few greater sorrows than a wayward savior.

Breeding Pit (Fifth Edition)
Adrian Smith

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this enchantment unless you pay {B}{B}. At the beginning of your end step, create a 0/1 black Thrull creature token.

The thrulls bred at a terrifying pace. In the end, they overwhelmed the Order of the Ebon Hand.

Breeding Pit (Duel Decks Anthology: Divine vs. Demonic)
Adrian Smith

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this enchantment unless you pay {B}{B}. At the beginning of your end step, create a 0/1 black Thrull creature token.

The thrulls bred at a terrifying pace. In the end, they overwhelmed the Order of the Ebon Hand.

Nekrataal (World Championship Decks 1997)
Adrian Smith

First strike When this creature enters, destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature. That creature can't be regenerated.

"I have seen the horrors Kaervek has freed. My betrayal is certain—but of Kaervek or of Jamuraa, I cannot say." —Jolrael

Nekrataal (World Championship Decks 1998)
Adrian Smith

First strike When this creature enters, destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature. That creature can't be regenerated.

"I have seen the horrors Kaervek has freed. My betrayal is certain—but of Kaervek or of Jamuraa, I cannot say." —Jolrael

Cruel Bargain (Portal)
Adrian Smith

Draw four cards. You lose half your life, rounded up.

Earthquake (Commander 2011)
Adrian Smith

Earthquake deals X damage to each creature without flying and each player.

They fell screaming into the depths of the chasm like so many pebbles tossed down a well.

Disperse (Scars of Mirrodin)
Adrian Smith

Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.

Most casualties of the power struggle between vedalken and Neurok didn't die on the field of battle; they merely disappeared.

Earthquake (Commander 2017)
Adrian Smith

Earthquake deals X damage to each creature without flying and each player.

They fell screaming into the depths of the chasm like so many pebbles tossed down a well.

Earthquake (Commander Anthology Volume II)
Adrian Smith

Earthquake deals X damage to each creature without flying and each player.

They fell screaming into the depths of the chasm like so many pebbles tossed down a well.

Horned Turtle (Portal)
Adrian Smith

Its spear has no shaft, its shield no handle.

Earthquake (Commander 2015)
Adrian Smith

Earthquake deals X damage to each creature without flying and each player.

They fell screaming into the depths of the chasm like so many pebbles tossed down a well.

Grave Servitude (Mirage)
Adrian Smith

You may cast this spell as though it had flash. If you cast it any time a sorcery couldn't have been cast, the controller of the permanent it becomes sacrifices it at the beginning of the next cleanup step. Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +3/-1 and is black.

"I no longer believe in a final resting place." —Shauku, Endbringer

Earthquake (Magic 2010)
Adrian Smith

Earthquake deals X damage to each creature without flying and each player.

They fell screaming into the depths of the chasm like so many pebbles tossed down a well.

Shapeshifter (Fifth Edition)
Adrian Smith

As this creature enters, choose a number between 0 and 7. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may choose a number between 0 and 7. Shapeshifter's power is equal to the last chosen number and its toughness is equal to 7 minus that number.

Doomsday (Classic Sixth Edition)
Adrian Smith

Search your library and graveyard for five cards and exile the rest. Put the chosen cards on top of your library in any order. You lose half your life, rounded up.

Scrapdiver Serpent (Commander Legends)
Adrian Smith

This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an artifact.

Smart artificers clean up after themselves.

Doomsday (Weatherlight)
Adrian Smith

Search your library and graveyard for five cards and exile the rest. Put the chosen cards on top of your library in any order. You lose half your life, rounded up.

Nekrataal (Visions)
Adrian Smith

First strike When this creature enters, destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature. That creature can't be regenerated.

"I have seen the horrors Kaervek has freed. My betrayal is certain—but of Kaervek or of Jamuraa, I cannot say." —Jolrael

Mole Worms (Fifth Edition)
Adrian Smith

You may choose not to untap this creature during your untap step. {T}: Tap target land. It doesn't untap during its controller's untap step for as long as this creature remains tapped.

Carrion Call (Phyrexia: All Will Be One Commander)
Adrian Smith

Create two 1/1 green Phyrexian Insect creature tokens with infect. (They deal damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

The natural order is out of order.

Nekrataal (Ninth Edition)
Adrian Smith

First strike When this creature enters, destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature. That creature can't be regenerated.

Black Knight (Anthologies)
Adrian Smith

First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.) Protection from white (This creature can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, or enchanted by anything white.)

"Battle doesn't need a purpose; the battle is its own purpose. You don't ask why a plague spreads or a field burns. Don't ask why I fight."

Aysen Bureaucrats (Fifth Edition)
Adrian Smith

{T}: Tap target creature with power 2 or less.

"When one's word is law, one's whim is equally binding." —Calmont, Aysen bureaucrat

Black Knight (Fifth Edition)
Adrian Smith

First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.) Protection from white (This creature can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, or enchanted by anything white.)

Battle doesn't need a purpose; the battle is its own purpose. You don't ask why a plague spreads or a field burns. Don't ask why I fight.

Noxious Toad (Portal)
Adrian Smith

When this creature dies, each opponent discards a card.

Breeding Pit (Duel Decks: Divine vs. Demonic)
Adrian Smith

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this enchantment unless you pay {B}{B}. At the beginning of your end step, create a 0/1 black Thrull creature token.

The thrulls bred at a terrifying pace. In the end, they overwhelmed the Order of the Ebon Hand.

Doomsday (The List)
Adrian Smith

Search your library and graveyard for five cards and exile the rest. Put the chosen cards on top of your library in any order. You lose half your life, rounded up.

Doomsday (Mystery Booster 2)
Adrian Smith

Search your library and graveyard for five cards and exile the rest. Put the chosen cards on top of your library in any order. You lose half your life, rounded up.

Scrapdiver Serpent (Scars of Mirrodin)
Adrian Smith

This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an artifact.

Smart artificers clean up after themselves.

Rusted Slasher (Mirrodin Besieged)
Adrian Smith

Sacrifice an artifact: Regenerate this creature.

"It's a beautiful vision. Discarded debris is reborn as a singular entity." —Urabrask the Hidden

Skinrender (DCI Promos)
Adrian Smith

When this creature enters, put three -1/-1 counters on target creature.

"Your creations are effective, Sheoldred, but we must unite the flesh, not merely flay it." —Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite