black instant cards mtg Best Standard staple cards- July 2026 • MTG DECKS Type: Instant, Colors: Black, 532

With the help of cards like Cosmic Intervention, Teleportation Circle, and Ephemerate, it's clear this sort of deck has been getting a lot of love over the last few years

While skipping one-drops is doable, especially in slower decks, not being able to play three-drops as well means that playing Gyruda, Doom of Depths as your companion essentially means that you're guaranteeing you'll cast a maximum of four mana worth of spells (two two-drops) across the first three turns of the game, which is certainly too slow for older formats like Modern and Pioneer, and likely too slow for Standard as well

Typically, only one of these cards is face up at a time

Necropotence Although Ive not played with the card much myself, Ive probably witnessed far more than one-thousand life get funneled into Necropotence across all the games Ive played

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