Skulduggery Makes the Right Move
Skulduggery is a compact black instant that reads like a practitioner's toolkit for tempo play. Cast it when combat math matters and you shift both the board and the math in one line of text. Use Skulduggery to push one of your creatures over a lethal threshold while simultaneously weakening an opposing blocker. The card rewards precise timing and lets you turn a single mana investment into two distinct advantages.
In lore terms Skulduggery fits the Outlaws of Thunder Junction tone. It feels like a quick con at a dimly lit table where advantage is stolen and pockets go lighter by the time the sun comes up. For gameplay it slots cleanly into aggressive and tempo black builds, and it trades cleanly with removal or combat tricks offered by other colors.
Card Details:
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Mana Cost – {B}
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Card Type – Instant
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Card Text / Rules Text (Printed) – Until end of turn, target creature you control gets +1/+1 and target creature an opponent controls gets -1/-1.
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Power / Toughness – N A
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Loyalty – N A
