What is black good for in MTG?

Black is intended to be the single best color at creature and Planeswalker removal. Unlike white, it can deal with creatures efficiently and with no downsides. It is also the only color that can specifically destroy Planeswalkers.

Can you target indestructible creatures?

Yes, Indestructible creatures are legal targets for spells/abilities that say “destroy target creature.” The spell actually does resolve, but when it attempts to destroy the creature rule 700.4 prevents it from happening.

Does destroy all creatures target?

It doesn’t target anything. It just destroys them, whether they’re slippery customers or not. Boom! Indestructible creatures survive a Wrath because their ability (“cannot be destroyed”) specifically interacts with the word “destroy” on the card Wrath of God.

What’s the most powerful color?

Black. As the strongest of all colours, black is often used only sparingly – such as for text – but it works quite well as a primary colour element (like for backgrounds).

Does Hexproof protect against destroy all creatures?

Hexproof is mainly found on creature cards that protect them from targeted spells or abilities that an opponent controls. I.e., they can’t be damaged, destroyed, or exiled. However, it is not safe from combat damage (blocking/attacking) or non-specific abilities like “destroy all,” “exile all,” etc.

Are black decks good MTG?

Black is good at killing creatures to build up turns so they can drop a big dude. It is also a fairly decent aggro strategy. Many people splash green for more removal (abrupt decay) which might be good against elves.

What is the strongest color in Magic The Gathering?

On average, the strongest color in Magic The Gathering is blue. Blue cards are consistently overrepresented in Magic’s older competitive formats. Compared to the other 4 MTG colors, blue cards are more frequently banned in Magic’s competitive play.

How does black kill a creature?

Black can use any of the various kill methods listed above to do it. Sometimes black likes to take its time killing. This effect goes on a permanent that sits around and kills a creature every turn. R&D refers to these cards as Abysses after the high-profile Legends enchantment that did it first.

Can terror be used to destroy black creatures?

Like Doom Blade, Terror can’t destroy black creatures, but it also can’t remove artifact creatures. However, to compensate, you gain the bonus of preventing regeneration, a trade-off I welcome considering the comparative rarity of artifact creatures.

Are black magic creatures alive?

Some black creatures, through necromancy or other unholy magic, are not alive but undead. Zombies, skeletons, specters and other living dead are just animated corpses forming the infantry of black magicians.

Can Green destroy artifact creatures?

Green normally doesn’t get to destroy creatures, but it has three exceptions: flying creatures, artifact creatures, and enchantment creatures (I’ll get to the second and third below). Because green is bad at flying, it has numerous tools to deal with fliers (reach being another one of its big answers).