Lurking Evil
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Urza's SagaUSG · #140
- Card type
- Enchantment
- Rarity
- Rare
- Indicative price
- 0.46 € · 0.42 $
- Mana value
- 3
- Colour
- Black
Card text
Pay half your life, rounded up: This enchantment becomes a 4/4 Phyrexian Horror creature with flying.
Format legality
- CommanderLegal
- DuelLegal
- LegacyLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PennyLegal
- PredhLegal
- PremodernLegal
- VintageLegal
Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).
Indicative Scryfall prices, updated daily. ★: foil; ★ E: etched foil. EUR and USD represent different markets.
Printing information
- Illustrator
- Scott Kirschner
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 1998-10-12
Flavour text
"Ash is our air, darkness our flesh." —*Phyrexian Scriptures*
Rulings
If you have zero or negative life, half your life is zero, so it costs nothing to use the ability.
When it turns into a creature, it is no longer an enchantment.
A noncreature permanent that turns into a creature can attack, and its abilities can be activated, only if its controller has continuously controlled that permanent since the beginning of their most recent turn. It doesn't matter how long the permanent has been a creature.
