Description
Darkness That Finishes
Malicious Eclipse is a compact removal sorcery that punishes overcommitment and swings stalled combat back in your favor. Malicious Eclipse gives all creatures -2/-2 until end of turn which often clears small tokens and chips away at larger threats. The secondary clause changes how creatures that would die are handled by exiling them instead of putting them into graveyards which shuts down graveyard recursion from opponents you need to lock out.
In Lost Caverns of Ixalan play patterns this card fits cleanly into tight black decks focused on board control and hate against reanimator or sacrifice synergies. Use it at blockers step to shrink attackers or as a surprise at end of combat to exile multiple threats from an opponent. Practical, efficient, and straightforward, Malicious Eclipse is the kind of one mana play you keep in the sideboard for matchups where the graveyard matters.
Card Details:
- Mana Cost – {1}{B}{B}
- Card Type – Sorcery
- Subtypes –
- Card Text / Rules Text (Printed) – All creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn. If a creature an opponent controls would die this turn, exile it instead.
- Power / Toughness – N A