(Each in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.) Creature - Zombie Color tag templates(None) Ichor Rats Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.) When this creature enters, each player gets a poison counter
Most of the time, youd be better off just playing a Landfall-based deck
In the same scenario, if you have a Detention Sphere and a Jace, Architect of Thought, you would have a difficult decision to make about whether to spend your next turn answering the Zombie or playing a contested planeswalker, whereas with Heros Downfall you can harness a tempo advantage by killing the Lifebane Zombie, untapping, and playing Jace to safely draw cards on an open board
That little tax makes it much harder for opponents to pick off your planeswalkers or other key legends, giving you time to set up
Our final Mindstab Thrull (by Mark Tedin) is probably the most disturbing-looking creature, and honestly feels so fucked-up
Black can wipe the board of creatures all day long, but not being able to remove other problematic permanents like enchantments or artifacts can be a real problem for the color