MTG · Card

◇ Catalog #9

Death's Shadow

DIGITAL ONLY

ha4·#9·rare·nonfoil

Illus. Howard Lyon

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in vault

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for trade

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wishlisted

Mar '21

5 yr ago

Played in EDH

EDHrec rank #8,298 · Niche pick

Variants

Nonfoil

Gameplay

Creature — Avatar

This creature gets -X/-X, where X is your life total.

13/13

Legalities

tlrlegal

duellegal

brawllegal

pennylegal

PreDH

Rulings · 4

2020-08-07wotc

If your life total is negative, X is considered to be 0.

2020-08-07wotc

Death's Shadow's ability applies only while Death's Shadow is on the battlefield. In all other zones, its power and toughness are 13.

2020-08-07wotc

In a Two-Headed Giant game, your life total is your team's life total.

2020-08-07wotc

Context

This printing is one of 2 catalogued treatments from HA4 — the lineup includes Nonfoil alongside the standard finish. Across our catalog the Rarix library tracks every variant in the same family so collectors can compare price, scarcity and demand inside a single lineage.

Card #9 of *Historic Anthology 4*, the set that shipped alongside the March 2021 Historic Anthology 4 release.

Card type: Creature — Avatar, color identity black, printed at rare. Rares occupy the bottom-of-pack rare slot in standard boosters. Mana cost: {B} (1 converted).

Legal across the major constructed formats — Modern, Legacy, Vintage, and Commander — plus Standard rotation play.

EDHrec ranks this card #8,298 in Commander, putting it in the niche-pick tier of the format's playable pool.

Illustrated by Howard Lyon. Rarix catalogs 652 other cards credited to this artist.