Card
Shadow, Mysterious Assassin
Mana cost {2}{B}
Legendary Creature — Human Assassin 3/3
Deathtouch Throw — Whenever Shadow deals combat damage to a player, you may sacrifice another nonland permanent. If you do, draw two cards and each opponent loses life equal to the mana value of the sacrificed permanent.
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. 2 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Rare · FIC · #50
- Cheapest printing
- €0.31
- EDHREC salt
- 0.27
- Color identity
- Black
- Keywords
- Deathtouch
Bracket
- B1 Exhibition — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B2 Core — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B3 Upgraded — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
- B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
Why
- No Game Changer, mass land denial, extra turn, tutor or two-card combo
How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket
Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags
Combos
No known combos for this card.
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2025-06-06 · Wizards of the Coast
If a permanent has {X} in its mana cost, X is 0 for the purpose of determining its mana value. - 2025-06-06 · Wizards of the Coast
Use the mana value of the sacrificed permanent as it last existed on the battlefield to determine how much life each opponent loses.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast