Death's Shadow
Mystery Booster 2 (MB2) #180 · Rare · Creature — Avatar
Mana cost: {B}
This creature gets -X/-X, where X is your life total.
The shadow of the candle looms tall even as its light grows dim.
Power/toughness 13/13 · Illustrated by Howard Lyon · Released August 2, 2024
Prices
- Nonfoil: $0.90 USD · €0.87 EUR
- Foil: $8.16 USD · €7.04 EUR
Nonfoil price since August 29, 2026: up $0.03 USD (3.4%) to $0.90 USD; low $0.87 USD, high $0.92 USD.
Printings
- Store Championships #40 (SCH) · Rare · 2025 · $7.41 USD
- Mystery Booster 2 #180 (this printing) · Rare · 2024 · $0.90 USD
- Secret Lair Promo #8 (SLP) · Rare · 2023 · $4.62 USD
- Secret Lair Drop #474 (SLD) · Rare · 2022 · $4.50 USD
- Historic Anthology 4 #9 (HA4) · Rare · 2021
- Double Masters #82 (2XM) · Rare · 2020 · $1.32 USD
- Modern Masters 2017 #64 (MM3) · Rare · 2017 · $1.19 USD
- Worldwake #57 (WWK) · Rare · 2010 · $1.72 USD
Legality
- Standard: Not legal
- Alchemy: Not legal
- Pioneer: Not legal
- Historic: Legal
- Modern: Legal
- Brawl: Legal
- Legacy: Legal
- Timeless: Legal
- Vintage: Legal
- Pauper: Not legal
- Commander: Legal
- Penny: Not legal
- Oathbreaker: Legal
- Duel: Legal
Rulings
- 2020-08-07 · wotc — If your life total is negative, X is considered to be 0.
- 2020-08-07 · wotc — 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.
- 2020-08-07 · wotc — In a Two-Headed Giant game, your life total is your team's life total.
- 2020-08-07 · wotc — The value of X changes as you gain and lose life. It's not locked in as Death's Shadow enters the battlefield.
Played in these commander decks
- The Mimeoplasm · in 24% of 46 decks