Make Your Bargain
Demonic Pact from Foundations is a compact, high-risk enchantment that forces hard choices every upkeep. With a cost of {2}{B}{B} this mythic rare sits in the enchantment slot and presses you to sequence outcomes across the game. You will trade tempo for card advantage, opponent disruption, or a burst of damage and life, and knowing when to accept or avoid the final clause is part of the decision space that makes this card a staple in control and combo shells alike.
Experienced pilots treat Demonic Pact as a clock and a resource engine at once. The option to draw two cards or to make an opponent discard two can turn stalled matchups, while the four damage plus four life line gives a tempo swing that buys time. The last choice ends the game, so deckbuilding and match awareness matter. Play it in lists that can leverage incremental upgrades to your board or that exile troublesome permanents before the pact forces a fatal outcome. Add it to a sideboard plan against grindy metas or slot it into a late game reach package.
Card Details:
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Mana Cost – {2}{B}{B}
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Card Type – Enchantment
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Card Text / Rules Text (Printed) – At the beginning of your upkeep, choose one that hasn’t been chosen — • This enchantment deals 4 damage to any target and you gain 4 life. • Target opponent discards two cards. • Draw two cards. • You lose the game.
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Power / Toughness – N/A
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Loyalty – N/A
