Illicit Masquerade: Impostors at the Gate Illicit Masquerade rewards careful timing and board maintenance. This black enchantment arrives with flash for {3}{B} so you can hold priority through an opponent turn and seed your board with impostor counters the moment it enters the battlefield. Those counters turn dying creatures into resources by exiling them and immediately returning another creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. The exchange favors decks that plan sacrifices or trading blocks and want repeatable recursion without relying on a single creature to survive.
Play it alongside sacrifice outlets, persist threats that die on command, or with enter the battlefield engines that gain value when swapped out. The card reads plainly but opens lines of play through timing and sequencing. Illicit Masquerade fits Graveyard centric strategies in limited and constructed play and it scales well into midgames where selective recursion matters more than raw card advantage.
Card Details:
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Mana Cost – {3}{B}
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Card Type – Enchantment
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Subtypes – (none)
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Card Text / Rules Text (Printed) – Flash. When Illicit Masquerade enters the battlefield, put an impostor counter on each creature you control. Whenever a creature you control with an impostor counter on it dies, exile it. Return up to one other target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
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Power / Toughness – N A
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Rarity – Rare
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Set – Murders at Karlov Manor
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Style – Foil
