Parasitic Strix
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
ConfluxCON · #32
- Card type
- Artifact Creature — Bird
- Rarity
- Common
- Indicative price
- 0.07 € · ★ 0.32 € · 0.16 $ · ★ 0.49 $
- Mana value
- 3
- Power
- 2
- Toughness
- 2
- Colour
- Blue
Card text
Flying When this creature enters, if you control a black permanent, target player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
Format legality
- CommanderLegal
- DuelLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PauperLegal
- PaupercommanderLegal
- PennyLegal
- PredhLegal
- 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
- Steven Belledin
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2009-02-06
Flavour text
After finding no sustenance on the edges of Grixis, it turned to the skies of Bant.
Rulings
If you don't control a black permanent immediately after Parasitic Strix enters the battlefield, its ability doesn't trigger. If you don't control one as the ability resolves, no player loses or gains life. It doesn't have to be the same black permanent both times, however.
Parasitic Strix's ability triggers only once, no matter how many black permanents you control beyond the first.
