Shriekmaw Black Card in Magic the Gathering

Video Transcript

"MIKE LOPEZ: Hi. I'm Mike Lopez with Expert Village, and today we're going to be discussing the black color from "Magic: The Gathering". Now, I'm going to discuss Shriekmaw. Shriekmaw is another powerful creature out of the Lorwyn block. It's an uncommon, it's a creature - elemental, once again, Lorwyn is trying to build up elementals and other creature types. We have Shriekmaw, costs you 4 and a black to play. It's a 3/2 creature for 5 converted mana cost, which means he's going to have some abilities. Right here, you see is fear, which means he can only be blocked by black and/or artifact creatures, and also whenever Shriekmaw comes into play, destroy target non-artifact, non-black creature. In essence, you're destroying a creature, which means it can be regenerated, which is very powerful whenever it comes in the play. If you do not want to play this card, you could play it for its evoke cost, which is 1 and a black, and as in this card comes in a play, you have to sacrifice it. However, he came into play, so you still get to destroy target non-artifact, non-black creature. It's a very powerful card."