Black Market Connections — Quiet Deals, Loud Payoffs

Black Market Connections puts a recurring choice engine into your black deck that rewards risk and timing. The Enchantment forces you to decide at the beginning of your precombat main phase whether to sell contraband for Treasure, buy information for card advantage, or hire a Mercenary to put a 3 2 changeling onto the battlefield. Each option carries a life cost which makes the card read like a resource conversion table that scales with your game plan.

As a player you will appreciate how Black Market Connections creates tension between tempo and long term advantage. Use the Treasure token when you need mana to push a line. Take the card when you must dig for answers. Spawn the changeling when a body on board matters. The card fits naturally into sacrifice synergies and Aristocrat shells while also pairing well with cards that care about Treasures and life totals. Play it with precision and the shadows will fund your next strike.

Card Details:

• Mana Cost {2}{B}
• Card Type Enchantment
• Subtypes —
• Card Text / Rules Text (Printed) At the beginning of your precombat main phase, choose one or more: Sell Contraband Create a Treasure token. You lose 1 life. Buy Information Draw a card. You lose 2 life. Hire a Mercenary Create a 3/2 colorless Shapeshifter creature token with changeling. You lose 3 life. (It has every creature type.)
• Power / Toughness —
• Loyalty —