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CardName: Erebos, God of the Undead Cost: 3(pb) Type: Legendary Enchantment Creature - God Pow/Tgh: 5/7 Rules Text: As long as your devotion to {bp} is less than three, Erebos isn't a creature. (Each {bp} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.) Your opponents can't pay life. 1{bp}{bp}: Draw a card. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Multiverse Design Challenge None

Erebos, God of the Undead

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Legendary Enchantment Creature – God

As long as your devotion to {bp}

is less than three, Erebos isn't a creature. (Each in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)
Your opponents can't pay life.
1 {bp}

: Draw a card.

5/7

Updated on 26 Jan 2017 by Jack V

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2017-01-26 16:41:24: Jack V created and commented on the card Erebos, God of the Undead

by Jack V:

See Challenge # 155.

Phyrexian version of Erebos, God of the Dead

Huh, I never noticed before. Apparently Gods have an exception to the "on first mention, use the full card name including title" templating rule. (Other legendary creatures and planeswalkers in Theros and later sets still use the shortened form only on second reference.)

I debated the devotion, if it should be "to phyrexian mana (of any colour)" or "to phyrexian mana OR black mana", but I decided to (pb) specifically felt right.

by Sorrow:

I was going to say Phyrexian devotion sounds hard, just imagining the number of permanents with phyrexian mana in a set, but 3 sounds doable. Inverting the can't gain life to "can't pay life" is a neat thing to show an undead aspect (and also hoses the flexibility of phyrexian mana). What life do the undead have to pay?

by Jack V:

Yeah, the number might need to be tweaked, but I figured a smaller number would be a reasonable hurdle, challenging but achievable. One is right there on the card :) Of course, it means you do need to build round it a little, not just throw it into a black deck.

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