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CardName: Riders of the Starlit Dusk Cost: 2BB Type: Creature - Specter Pow/Tgh: 3/3 Rules Text: Menace (This creature can’t be blocked except by two or more creatures.) When Riders of the Starlit Dusk enters the battlefield, each opponent discards a card. Flavour Text: Melkor sent his dark servants as riders, for the purpose that any of the Elves should shun Oromë, if ever they should meet. Set/Rarity: Silmarillion: The War of the Jewels Uncommon
Riders of the Starlit Dusk
  Menace (This creature can’t be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
When Riders of the Starlit Dusk enters the battlefield, each opponent discards a card. Melkor sent his dark servants as riders, for the purpose that any of the Elves should shun Oromë, if ever they should meet.
Illus. Angus McBride
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Great card. The flavor text hickups. Is this the case in the source or a typo?
Edited the flavor text a bit.
If you mean the unnecessary "the" then its on me. Does "any of the" work here?
The original snippet:
> "Now Melkor greatly hated and feared the riding of Oromë, and either he sent indeed his dark servants as riders, or he set lying whispers abroad, for the purpose that the Quendi should shun Oromë, if ever they should meet."
I like this as a proto-Nazgul concept, which is kinda funny considering that cards like Abyssal Specter feel especially inspired by Nazgul themselves. What goes around comes around, right?
Design wise, this and Clamour of Torment are somewhat similar which bothers me a little bit.
You could make Clamour of Torment into Mind Rot with a conditional bonus on discard a card of a certain type i.e.
>Target opponent discards two cards. Create a 1/1 black Spirit token with flying for each creature card discarded this way.
Obviously the mana cost would have to change to like
or 
if that were to happen.
It's fine... There is a token theme in the set after all, so that makes the two cards more distinct than usual.
Besides, I think a Mind Rot+ with a chance to spawn a evasive dude or two, is pushing it at common.
All-star uncommon here.