Herald of Torment

Herald of Torment {1}{B}{B}

Enchantment Creature - Demon
Bestow {3}{B}{B}
Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life.
Enchanted creature gets +3/+3 and has flying.
3/3
Details
  • Artist: Vance Kovacs
  • Collector Number: 75
  • Available foil and nonfoil
  • Frame Effects: enchantment
  • Rarity: rare
  • Released: 2014-02-07
  • Set: Born of the Gods
Legalities
Rulings
  • 2013-09-15 Auras attached to a creature don't become tapped when the creature becomes tapped. Except in some rare cases, an Aura with bestow remains untapped when it becomes unattached and becomes a creature.
  • 2013-09-15 If a permanent with bestow enters the battlefield by any method other than being cast, it will be an enchantment creature. You can't choose to pay the bestow cost and have it become an Aura.
  • 2013-09-15 On the stack, a spell with bestow is either a creature spell or an Aura spell. It's never both, although it's an enchantment spell in either case.
  • 2013-09-15 Unlike other Aura spells, an Aura spell with bestow isn't countered if its target is illegal as it begins to resolve. Rather, the effect making it an Aura spell ends, it loses enchant creature, it returns to being an enchantment creature spell, and it resolves and enters the battlefield as an enchantment creature.
  • 2013-09-15 Unlike other Auras, an Aura with bestow isn't put into its owner's graveyard if it becomes unattached. Rather, the effect making it an Aura ends, it loses enchant creature, and it remains on the battlefield as an enchantment creature. It can attack (and its {T} abilities can be activated, if it has any) on the turn it becomes unattached if it's been under your control continuously, even as an Aura, since your most recent turn began.
  • 2014-02-01 The triggered ability that causes you to lose life applies whether Herald of Torment is a creature or an Aura. The "you" in that ability refers to Herald of Torment's controller. If you control Herald of Torment as an Aura enchanting a creature another player controls, that ability will trigger at the beginning of your upkeep and cause you to lose 1 life.
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Printings
  • Born of the Gods (rare)

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Foreign names
  • 劫令恶魔
  • 劫令惡魔
  • Herold der Qualen
  • Héraut du tourment
  • Araldo del Tormento
  • 責め苦の伝令
  • 고통의 전령
  • Arauto do Tormento
  • Предвестник Пыток
  • Heraldo del tormento