You’re losing and I mean, you’re losing badly. Just when you’re about to forfeit the game you top deck your trump card, your holy grail. This will turn the game around for sure. It’s the one sleeper strategy your deck has.

With a Cheshire grin, you drop that big boy on the field, all is good in the world. But… then the opponent flips a card over, your heart sinks, it’s a Trap hole, your badass monster gets sent to the graveyard.

Few cards archetypes garner so much respect and fear as the illustrious kill card. Being a card game staple we thought it would be juicy to talk about some of our own. Here’s a list of some of our favorite kill cards.

Now it is worth mentioning that all schools of magic have targeted kill cards for example; “kill target humanoid” or “kill target minion if opponent owns this color habitat” however these are more of a counter-strategy more than anything else and thus we’ve left them out.

Red Magic

This type of magic usually employs a lot of conditional damage. Slowly sapping away at the enemies minions, until they get weak enough to kill with direct damage spells or plucked off the field by weak minions. Even with that being said Red does possess one of the most destructive kills cards, Distilled Essence of Flame, destroy all minions. Similar to the Wrath of God card in Magic The Gathering, this card kills indiscriminately, as fire burns all things.

It’s quintessential in the Red magic theory.

Green Magic

This school of magic actually doesn’t have any cards to kill opponents' minions outright. Green magic excels in the reverse direction with healing spells. Damage spells can be found but for the most part they use poison which slowly drips an opponent's life.

Blue Magic

With a rather savage strategy, Blue magic idealogy is to lock the opponent down. It can be daunting to deal with, the thought that no matter what you summon next it will die. A good way to counter a Blue deck is to keep cheap 1 drop minions at the ready, as a lot of them will die in the fray.

Even when you do happen to get a minion to slip by, they’ll be frozen by the opponent's Icy Grip, Minions cannot attack for 1 turn.

Purple Magic

Purple doesn't really have kill cards in its Rolodex, they do destroy habitat resources, your opponents and maybe even your own if you need it.

Black Magic

Black magic has all the types of death, we got mass annihilation, we got destroy the next card played and we got specific kill cards. This paired with a swarm of direct damage and graveyard manipulation cards it’s no guess that black is a force to be reckoned with.

Okay so, what's the best kill card in the game?

Drumroll, please …

The rare black spell Ensnare.