Aphotic Wisps
Shadowmoor (SHM) #55 · Common · Instant
Mana cost: {B}
Target creature becomes black and gains fear until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
Draw a card.
Merrows skulk the silty bogs around the Wanderbrine, their very thoughts stained with evil.
Illustrated by Jim Nelson · Released May 2, 2008
Prices
- Nonfoil: $1.83 USD · €0.36 EUR
- Foil: $11.49 USD · €4.68 EUR
Nonfoil price since August 29, 2026: up $1.12 USD (157.7%) to $1.83 USD; low $0.39 USD, high $1.83 USD.
Printings
- The List #SHM-55 (PLST) · Common · 2024 · $0.26 USD
- Shadowmoor #55 (this printing) · Common · 2008 · $1.83 USD
Legality
- Standard: Not legal
- Alchemy: Not legal
- Pioneer: Not legal
- Historic: Not legal
- Modern: Legal
- Brawl: Not legal
- Legacy: Legal
- Timeless: Not legal
- Vintage: Legal
- Pauper: Legal
- Commander: Legal
- Penny: Legal
- Oathbreaker: Legal
- Duel: Legal
Rulings
- 2008-05-01 · wotc — An effect that changes a permanent’s colors overwrites all its old colors unless it specifically says “in addition to its other colors.” For example, after Cerulean Wisps resolves, the affected creature will just be blue. It doesn’t matter what colors it used to be (even if, for example, it used to be blue and black).
- 2008-05-01 · wotc — Colorless is not a color.
- 2008-05-01 · wotc — Changing a permanent’s color won’t change its text. If you turn Wilt-Leaf Liege blue, it will still affect green creatures and white creatures.