Shadow Selection
Cover of Darkness brings Assassin's Creed stealth into your black deck with a quiet but strategic effect. As it enters the battlefield you pick a creature type and immediately shape combat math by granting that type fear. That choice turns blocks into puzzles for opponents who lack the right answers and rewards decks that exploit evasion or tribal synergies.
The card reads and plays simply yet with layered implications. Cover of Darkness fits smoothly in sacrifice or control shells where narrowing attackers or enabling unblockable damage matters. Play it to protect a tempo lead, to punch through for lethal damage, or to make your evasive threats reliably hard to block. Practical, efficient and thematic for decks leaning into creature types and darkness oriented play patterns.
Card Details:
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Mana Cost – {1}{B}
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Card Type – Enchantment
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Subtypes –
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Card Text / Rules Text (Printed) – As Cover of Darkness enters the battlefield, choose a creature type. Creatures of the chosen type have fear. (They can’t be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
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