Blighted Blackthorn
- Mana cost
- {4}{B}
- Type
- Creature — Treefolk Warlock
- Power / toughness
- 3 / 7
- Set
- Lorwyn Eclipsed #90 (common)
- Price
- $0.15 USD
Whenever this creature enters or attacks, you may blight 2. If you do, you draw a card and lose 1 life. (To blight 2, put two -1/-1 counters on a creature you control.)
Blighted Blackthorn has 1 printing, first in Lorwyn Eclipsed (2026). EDHREC ranks it #16,133 among Commander cards. It appears most in Doran, Besieged by Time decks (2,164 on EDHREC). It has 6 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Blighted Blackthorn most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Doran, Besieged by Time: 2,164 decks
- Mabel, Bitter Recluse: 10 decks
- Seymour Flux: 4 decks
- Oroku Saki, Shredder Rising: 4 decks
- Sivriss, Nightmare Speaker
Often played with Blighted Blackthorn
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : All of the -1/-1 counters must be put on a single creature. You can't choose to split them up between multiple creatures.
- : If a creature that has +1/+1 counters on it receives enough -1/-1 counters to cause it to be destroyed by lethal damage or put into its owner's graveyard for having 0 or less toughness, effects that refer to the counters on that creature when it died will see all of those +1/+1 and -1/-1 counters.
- : If a creature has +1/+1 counters and -1/-1 counters on it, state-based actions remove the same number of each so that it has only one kind of those counters on it. For example, if a creature has three +1/+1 counters on it and two -1/-1 counters are put on it, state-based actions will remove two of each of those kinds of counters, leaving the creature with just one +1/+1 counter.
- : If you can't place -1/-1 counters on any creatures you control (probably because you control no creatures), you can't choose to blight.
- : Once you've announced that you're casting a spell or activating an ability, players can't take actions until you've finished doing so. Notably, opponents can't try to destroy or otherwise remove your creatures to stop you from blighting as part of paying the cost of that spell or ability.
- : The creature you choose to put -1/-1 counters on doesn't have to have enough toughness to survive the process. For example, if you blight 2, you can choose to put the counters on a 1/1 creature you control.