Starving Revenant (The Lost Caverns of Ixalan) Light Play

Gravebound Predator

Starving Revenant from The Lost Caverns of Ixalan offers a compact but potent addition to any black graveyard plan. The creature arrives with a built in surveil two that lets you sculpt the top of your library, and the printed trigger trades life for card advantage in a way that rewards careful sequencing. As a 4/4 Spirit Horror for {2}{B}{B} it occupies both the battlefield and the graveyard as meaningful resources.

Play Starving Revenant when you need reliable draw and a steady engine that scales with permanents in your graveyard. The descend eight clause turns every draw into incremental life drain and life gain once your graveyard reaches threshold, so it pairs well with sacrifice outlets and recurring permanents. Expect this card to find a home in midrange and control lists that exploit self mill and value recursion.

Card Details:

• Mana Cost – {2}{B}{B}
• Card Type – Creature
• Subtypes – Spirit Horror
• Card Text / Rules Text (Printed) – When Starving Revenant enters the battlefield, surveil 2. Then for each card you put on top of your library, you draw a card and you lose 3 life. Descend 8 — Whenever you draw a card, if there are eight or more permanent cards in your graveyard, target opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
• Power / Toughness – 4/4