The Dark Barony

set	min	mtgo
-	139.39	0.05 tix

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Name	The Dark Barony
Type	Plane — ulgrotha
Description	Whenever a nonblack card is put into a player's graveyard from anywhere, that player loses 1 life. Whenever chaos ensues, each opponent discards a card.
Artist	Pete Venters
Set	Planechase Anthology Planes #19
Wallpaper	download
Image	download

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About The Dark Barony

The Dark Barony, Plane — ulgrotha, designed by Pete Venters first released in Sep, 2009 in the set Planechase Planes and was printed exactly in 2 different ways. It's currently being selled by the minimum price of 139.39.

A deck that focuses on discarding cards from opponents' hands or utilizing effects that force opponents to discard cards would benefit from using The Dark Barony. Cards like Liliana of the Veil or Hymn to Tourach may be better options for this strategy, as they provide more consistent and impactful discard effects. While The Dark Barony's ability to chip away at opponents' life totals can be useful in certain situations, its high mana cost and situational nature may make it less desirable for competitive play compared to other more efficient discard cards.

Rules

10/01/09

A plane card is treated as if its text box included “When you roll , put this card on the bottom of its owner’s planar deck face down, then move the top card of your planar deck off that planar deck and turn it face up.” This is called the “planeswalking ability.”

10/01/09

The controller of a face-up plane card is the player designated as the “planar controller.” Normally, the planar controller is whoever the active player is. However, if the current planar controller would leave the game, instead the next player in turn order that wouldn’t leave the game becomes the planar controller, then the old planar controller leaves the game. The new planar controller retains that designation until they leave the game or a different player becomes the active player, whichever comes first.

10/01/09

The Dark Barony’s first ability doesn’t behave like a leaves-the-battlefield triggered ability, since the card put into a graveyard may come from anywhere. If a card is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, its color is checked in the graveyard, not as it last existed on the battlefield.

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