Lorwyn Eclipsed (ECL)

Blight

The rule

Blight N: you put N -1/-1 counters on a creature you control. It is most often a cost, sometimes optional, or a choice you pay for an effect.

In play

You need a creature that can take the counters: you pay them for tokens, damage, a card or a stronger removal spell; creatures that enter with counters have big starting stats.

The archetypes that lean on it

The other mechanics of the set

The Blight cards, ranked

Ranked by win rate when the card is in hand (the cards with few games follow, by pick rating).

  1. 1. Soul Immolation63.2 %8.9
  2. 2. Champion of the Weird59.5 %7.6
  3. 3. Dawnhand Dissident58.9 %8.1
  4. 4. Pyrrhic Strike58.3 %7.0
  5. 5. Grub, Storied Matriarch // Grub, Notorious Auntie57.8 %6.6
  6. 6. Boggart Mischief57.0 %6.1
  7. 7. Bogslither's Embrace56.1 %5.8
  8. 8. Cinder Strike55.7 %5.8
  9. 9. Sourbread Auntie55.3 %5.6
  10. 10. Scuzzback Scrounger55.1 %6.0
  11. 11. Spiral into Solitude54.3 %4.4
  12. 12. Gristle Glutton53.8 %4.8
  13. 13. Shadow Urchin53.7 %6.0
  14. 14. Wild Unraveling53.4 %4.6
  15. 15. Evershrike's Gift53.2 %5.2
  16. 16. Requiting Hex52.7 %5.8
  17. 17. Sting-Slinger52.1 %5.6
  18. 18. Gutsplitter Gang51.9 %4.9
  19. 19. Burning Curiosity51.6 %2.0
  20. 20. Dream Seizer51.3 %2.8
  21. 21. Warren Torchmaster51.1 %4.2
  22. 22. Dose of Dawnglow50.9 %4.4
  23. 23. Blighted Blackthorn50.8 %2.0
  24. 24. Chaos Spewer50.4 %3.8