Darkest Hour (8/15)

Darkest Hour is more flavorful than effective: make everything black. This obviously synergizes both with and against effects that care about color, like anything with protection from black or black's proclivity to, in the past, have “nonblack” riders on all of its kill spells. It also thwarts fear, amusingly enough.

The best place for Darkest Hour, in my reckoning, is in a deck splashing for it to take advantage of creatures with protection from black, since it would effectively make those creatures unblockable. There are a lot of potential uses for it, but there aren’t a ton of ways to make it useful without a lot of set-up.

Constructed: 1.75

Casual: 3

Limited: 2

Multiplayer: 2.25

Commander: 2.25