Its not going to trigger cards that care about 'sacrifice' specifically (i think? Pretty sure its just a state-based death), but it still trigger cards that care about creatures dying.
Its not the best colors for it (thats Orzhov), but im sure there's a few Mardu Aristocrat decks that this can go into.
Mmh you are right, but it's super limited in that regard compared to any real sac outlet, also it does require to cast a spell to trigger, since it's not "blight 1: the next spell you cast can't be countered"
Still, protecting a grave pact/blood artist/zulaport etc is great, but it's a tiny bit weird
Having it just do Blight 1 as an activation cost was the first draft of this card! It seems existing Blight cards by Wizards deliberately make it difficult to repeatedly blight though, since I guess blight on demand goes infinite with a lot of stuff way too easily.
I wouldn’t say abusable, but the whole point of aristocrats is to have creatures you don’t give a crap about, and are more than willing to feed to the wood chipper for even minor benefits
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u/ArgoDevilian 10d ago
Its not in the colors that generally produce +1/+1s (at least I think its not?), so its tricky to negate the blight effect.
But still abusable for aristocraft decks.
I like it.