The stall-breaker to Royal Assassin's stall-creator, Abyssal Hunter gets passed over even in casual deck construction time and time again, and that's a terrible shame because he is a powerful card. It has obvious applications like settling creature impasses, slowly clearing the battlefield of clutter like Llanowar Elves with his oversized bowie knife and keeping one large creature locked down for as many turns as you wish, and even before you start combining other cards with him, you'll notice that those are a wide range of useful abilities, particularly in a black card - a colour that seems to have recently lost the power to force a creature to tap. Now then... combine the man with Sadistic Glee or, even more viciously, the off-colour Exoskeletal Armor and he becomes the fish that eats its kin so that he may acquire the volume to eat bigger fish still. Pair him, as many have done, with Royal Assassin himself and you have a deadly duo who decide whether any other man lives or dies. Even placing something as simple as Instill Energy on the Abyssal Hunter creates an outrageously powerful problem for your opponent. Yes, he can be removed from play by many of the choice zaps people play and yes, he probably costs one point of mana too many, but when you are paying for a chance to control a permanent that ruins your opponent's plans to such an extent, one dares to say it might be worthwhile. Can be acquired for about forty pence a copy, in either black or white-bordered form.
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