Lurking Evil
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SetUSG
Collector #140
Released1998-10-12
Rarityrare
ArtistScott Kirschner
LanguageEN
Layoutnormal
ScryfallOpen ↗

Lurking Evil

RareColour IDMV 3
Enchantment
Pay half your life, rounded up: This enchantment becomes a 4/4 Phyrexian Horror creature with flying.
Card capabilities
Enchantment
Derived deterministically from card types, Oracle text and keywords. Not a strategic evaluation.
Format legality
Other printings
1 other English printingEarliest 2014-06-16Newest 2014-06-16
Rulings (3)
wotc1 Aug 2008
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.
wotc4 Oct 2004
When it turns into a creature, it is no longer an enchantment.
wotc4 Oct 2004
If you have zero or negative life, half your life is zero, so it costs nothing to use the ability.