Queen's Bay Paladin (The Lost Caverns of Ixalan) Light Play

Reclaim the Night

Queen's Bay Paladin is a practical tool for decks that value incremental recursion and battlefield presence. Queen's Bay Paladin rewards aggressive tempo by returning a Vampire card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a finality counter on it whenever it enters the battlefield or attacks. The cost in life equal to the revived card's mana value forces choices about which return matters most and when to press the attack.

On the battlefield the Paladin is straightforward to slot into tribal builds or midrange black decks as a recurring threat and resource engine. The design encourages sequencing and risk assessment because anything brought back with a finality counter will not hang around forever. Play it when you need a dependable resurrector that also pressures an opponent with a 5 by 4 body.

Card Details:

• Mana Cost – {3}{B}{B}
• Card Type – Creature
• Subtypes – Vampire Knight
• Card Text / Rules Text (Printed) – Whenever Queen's Bay Paladin enters the battlefield or attacks, return up to one target Vampire card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a finality counter on it. You lose life equal to its mana value. (If a creature with a finality counter on it would die, exile it instead.)
• Power / Toughness – 5/4