---
name: "Lingering Death"
mana_cost: "{1}{B}"
cmc: 2
type_line: "Enchantment — Aura"
colors: ["B"]
color_identity: ["B"]
keywords: ["Enchant"]
set: "SCG"
set_name: "Scourge"
collector_number: "69"
rarity: "common"
artist: "Matt Thompson"
oracle_id: "53463d3d-fa97-46fb-a73b-35bb0e0dac72"
canonical_url: "https://avascry.com/printing/lingering-death-scg"
legalities:
  commander: "legal"
  standard: "not_legal"
  modern: "not_legal"
  pioneer: "not_legal"
  legacy: "legal"
  vintage: "legal"
  pauper: "legal"
  penny: "legal"
---

# Lingering Death
- **Mana Cost:** `{1}{B}` (CMC: 2)
- **Type:** Enchantment — Aura
- **Keywords:** Enchant

## Oracle Text
Enchant creature
At the beginning of the end step of enchanted creature's controller, that player sacrifices that creature.

> *„Sieht nicht gut aus. Ich habe keine Ahnung, ob er die Nacht übersteht." —Kabbalisten-Kleriker*

## Top 4096-Dim Neural Synergies
1. [Inevitable End](/printing/inevitable-end-thb.md) — Enchantment — Aura
2. [Nettlevine Blight](/printing/nettlevine-blight-lrw.md) — Enchantment — Aura
3. [Pendrell Flux](/printing/pendrell-flux-usg.md) — Enchantment — Aura
4. [Creature Bond](/printing/creature-bond-3ed.md) — Enchantment — Aura
5. [Melancholy](/printing/melancholy-plc.md) — Enchantment — Aura
6. [Necrotic Plague](/printing/necrotic-plague-m11.md) — Enchantment — Aura

## Printing Details
- **Set:** Scourge (SCG) #69
- **Rarity:** Common
- **Artist:** Matt Thompson
- **Total Printings:** 9 across all historical editions

## Format Legalities
Commander: `legal` | Standard: `not_legal` | Modern: `not_legal` | Pioneer: `not_legal` | Legacy: `legal` | Vintage: `legal` | Pauper: `legal` | Penny: `legal`