Death's Shadow
Death's Shadow

Death's Shadow

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Our grade: Near Mint. Pictured: this printing of the card. Every card ships triple-sleeved — a soft sleeve, a deck sleeve and a rigid top loader.

Item Description

Death's Shadow is printed as a 13/13 for a single black mana, and then it asks the question that makes it so much fun: how much life are you willing to give up? It gets -X/-X, where X is your life total. At 13 life or more it simply dies, but at 5 life it's an 8/8, and at 1 life it's a 12/12.

That turns your life total into a resource. Decks built around it pay life on purpose with fetch lands, shock lands and life-for-cards effects, then drop an enormous Shadow for one mana right when an opponent thinks they're winning. First printed in Worldwake, it later became the namesake of a well-known Modern archetype built on exactly that tension. Gaining life shrinks it, and Commander's 40 starting life means it takes deliberate setup there, which is part of the appeal for players who like living on the edge.

This is the Double Masters printing, collector number 82, illustrated by Howard Lyon, in non-foil. Double Masters (2020) was a reprint set packed with sought-after rares, and the flavor text sums up the card's whole idea in one line: "The shadow of the candle looms tall even as its light grows dim."

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