It's been a long time since a 1/1 for two mana
could pretend to be good for anything unless it
had a stellar ability tacked onto it. Heck, it's
been a long time since Ravenous Rats interested
anybody, and Black Cat has to die before you get
the discard ability. Making it random doesn't
exactly make that any better. The only saving
graces here are that it makes a good blocker,
and it's a Zombie and can thus be slotted
comfortably into a variety of already-existing
Zombie decks. As Zombie decks are usually fairly
good at bringing their dead back onto the field,
reusing the Black Cat's trigger becomes
possible.Still, Black mages have a whole arsenal
of better ways to make opponents discard cards,
and for a 1B Zombie, I'd almost rather have
Walking Corpse.
When it was time to write this review you're
reading now, I realized I had no idea where the
superstition about black cats came from. They're
hardly unusual, and they don't generally use
powerful psychic attacks like this particular
one. I could definitely see a niche for a card
like this in constructed Magic; if you subscribe
to the overused "lol dies to removal" school of
thought, you probably welcome a creature that
punishes your opponent for killing it. If you
don't, you may like it because it fits with
other zombies, has an occasionally-relevant
triggered ability, and/or is finally an actual
cat card in the right color to nickname your
deck "Catwoman" without irony. If only there
could have been some kind of White Knight-Black
Knight duality going on with this and Sanctuary
Cat . . .
Today's card of the day is Black Cat which is a
two mana Black 1/1 that forces target opponent
to discard a card at random when it dies. This
is a decent addition to a zombie or sacrifice
and reanimation theme, particularly if it can be
sacrificed after your opponent draws a card on
their turn. It is card advantage, but may not be
aggressive enough for the typical zombie build.
For Limited almost any advantage in cards is
worth some attention and a two mana 1/1 is worth
playing for an early offensive potential.
Whether it is attacking and dealing damage by
not being blocked or causes a discard it is
justifies the slot in a deck for both Sealed
when already using Black and Booster as a pick
after removal and larger creatures.
Welcome to Pojo.com’s card of the day. Today we
continue looking at Dark Ascesion with Black
Cat. Black Cat is a common black creature cat
zombie. Black Cat is a 1/1 and costs one generic
and one black mana. When Black Cat dies, target
opponent discards a card at random.
Black Cat is good for what it is, a common card
with a nifty ability, solidifying it as a better
common from Dark Ascension. Depending on whether
your opponent is willing to lose cards
determines its ultimate value. Send it on a
kamikazi run and see. If they block, they may
not really care about what they have in their
hand, or they are planning on bringing it back.
If they hold off on attacking, it implies that
same notion.
But why stop there? Continue to make use of the
Black Cat. Cards such as Megrim or Liliana’s
Caress punish them regardless. And a card like
Leyline of the Void means that whatever is
randomly discarded never pops back again!
A very good common, but that in itself does not
make it great, just greatly useful.
