Card
Nether Traitor
Mana cost {B}{B}
Haste Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.) Whenever another creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay {B}. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 250 known combos. 6 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Rare · TSP · #120
- Cheapest printing
- €1.29
- EDHREC salt
- 0.30
- Color identity
- Black
- Keywords
- Shadow, Haste
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
250 known combos.
- Nether Traitor + Phyrexian Altar + Pawn of Ulamog
Produces: Infinite colored mana, Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB
View on Commander Spellbook - Nether Traitor + Phyrexian Altar + Sifter of Skulls
Produces: Infinite colored mana, Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB
View on Commander Spellbook - Yahenni, Undying Partisan + Nether Traitor + Pawn of Ulamog + Pitiless Plunderer
Produces: Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2021-03-19 · Wizards of the Coast
Once a creature has been blocked, that creature remains blocked and will deal and be dealt combat damage even if it gains or loses shadow or if the blocking creature gains or loses shadow. - 2021-03-19 · Wizards of the Coast
Multiple instances of shadow on the same creature are redundant. - 2021-03-19 · Wizards of the Coast
If multiple creatures are put into your graveyard at the same time, Nether Traitor's ability triggers for each of them. Once you return it to the battlefield, you may pay {B} for the other abilities as they resolve, but they'll have no effect if you do. Even if Nether Traitor returns to your graveyard, it's considered a new object and won't be returned. - 2021-03-19 · Wizards of the Coast
A token you own that dies is put into your graveyard before it ceases to exist. - 2021-03-19 · Wizards of the Coast
If an attacking creature has multiple evasion abilities, such as shadow and flying, a creature can block it only if that creature satisfies all of the appropriate evasion abilities. - 2021-03-19 · Wizards of the Coast
If Nether Traitor and another creature are put into your graveyard at the same time, Nether Traitor's ability won't trigger. This is because it must be in your graveyard before the creature dies in order for its ability that returns it to the battlefield to trigger.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast