Lurking Evil
Urza's Saga (USG) #140 · Rare · Enchantment
Mana cost: {B}{B}{B}
Pay half your life, rounded up: This enchantment becomes a 4/4 Phyrexian Horror creature with flying.
"Ash is our air, darkness our flesh."
—*Phyrexian Scriptures*
Illustrated by Scott Kirschner · Released October 12, 1998
Prices
- Nonfoil: $0.42 USD · €0.42 EUR
Nonfoil price since August 29, 2026: down $0.02 USD (4.5%) to $0.42 USD; low $0.42 USD, high $0.44 USD.
Printings
- Vintage Masters #127 (VMA) · Uncommon · 2014
- Urza's Saga #140 (this printing) · Rare · 1998 · $0.42 USD
Legality
- Standard: Not legal
- Alchemy: Not legal
- Pioneer: Not legal
- Historic: Not legal
- Modern: Not legal
- Brawl: Not legal
- Legacy: Legal
- Timeless: Not legal
- Vintage: Legal
- Pauper: Not legal
- Commander: Legal
- Penny: Legal
- Oathbreaker: Legal
- Duel: Legal
Rulings
- 2004-10-04 · wotc — When it turns into a creature, it is no longer an enchantment.
- 2004-10-04 · wotc — If you have zero or negative life, half your life is zero, so it costs nothing to use the ability.
- 2008-08-01 · wotc — A noncreature permanent that turns into a creature can attack, and its {T} abilities can be activated, only if its controller has continuously controlled that permanent since the beginning of their most recent turn. It doesn't matter how long the permanent has been a creature.