black instant cards mtg Best Standard staple cards- July 2026 • MTG DECKS Type: Instant, Sorcery, Colors: Black,

TCG coming in May

Necropotence Although Ive not played with the card much myself, Ive probably witnessed far more than one-thousand life get funneled into Necropotence across all the games Ive played

Typically, only one of these cards is face up at a time

Attempts to Recreate the Magic of the Lotus Lotus Vale Their first attempt came in 1997 with Lotus Vale from Weatherlight

While skipping one-drops is doable, especially in slower decks, not being able to play three-drops as well means that playing Gyruda, Doom of Depths as your companion essentially means that you're guaranteeing you'll cast a maximum of four mana worth of spells (two two-drops) across the first three turns of the game, which is certainly too slow for older formats like Modern and Pioneer, and likely too slow for Standard as well