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Too-Specific Top 10 - Shadowy Figures - Shady Characters
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Commander

Quantity: 1Price: $24.99
Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor

Whenever a creature deals combat damage to one of your opponents, its controller may pay 1 life. If they do, they draw a card. {4}{B}{B}{B}, Discard X cards: Exile the top X cards of target opponent's library. You may play lands and cast spells from among cards exiled this way without paying their mana costs.

Creature
Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor (bro) 95
1

Artifacts

Quantity: 10Price: $39.90
Bontu's Monument

Black creature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. Whenever you cast a creature spell, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Artifact
Bontu's Monument (dmc) 179
1
Eater of Virtue

Whenever equipped creature dies, exile it. Equipped creature gets +2/+0. As long as a card exiled with Eater of Virtue has flying, equipped creature has flying. The same is true for first strike, double strike, deathtouch, haste, hexproof, indestructible, lifelink, menace, protection, reach, trample, and vigilance. Equip {1}

Artifact
Eater of Virtue (neo) 245
1
Gauntlet of Power

As Gauntlet of Power enters the battlefield, choose a color. Creatures of the chosen color get +1/+1. Whenever a basic land is tapped for mana of the chosen color, its controller adds an additional one mana of that color.

Artifact
Gauntlet of Power (dmr) 223
1
Heraldic Banner

As Heraldic Banner enters the battlefield, choose a color. Creatures you control of the chosen color get +1/+0. {T}: Add one mana of the chosen color.

Artifact
Heraldic Banner (scd) 267
1
Konda's Banner

Konda's Banner can be attached only to a legendary creature. Creatures that share a color with equipped creature get +1/+1. Creatures that share a creature type with equipped creature get +1/+1. Equip {2}

Artifact
Konda's Banner (chk) 259
1
Mask of Memory

Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you may draw two cards. If you do, discard a card. Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Mask of Memory (onc) 136
1
Spellbook

You have no maximum hand size.

Artifact
Spellbook (plst) 10E-343
1
Strixhaven Stadium

{T}: Add {C}. Put a point counter on Strixhaven Stadium. Whenever a creature deals combat damage to you, remove a point counter from Strixhaven Stadium. Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to an opponent, put a point counter on Strixhaven Stadium. Then if it has ten or more point counters on it, remove them all and that player loses the game.

Artifact
Strixhaven Stadium (stx) 259
1
Thought Vessel

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add {C}.

Artifact
Thought Vessel (scd) 285
1
Umezawa's Jitte

Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage, put two charge counters on Umezawa's Jitte. Remove a charge counter from Umezawa's Jitte: Choose one — • Equipped creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. • Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn. • You gain 2 life. Equip {2}

Artifact
Umezawa's Jitte (plst) BOK-163
1

Creatures

Quantity: 38Price: $66.54
Ayara, First of Locthwain

Whenever Ayara, First of Locthwain or another black creature enters the battlefield under your control, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life. {T}, Sacrifice another black creature: Draw a card.

Creature
Ayara, First of Locthwain (eld) 75
1
Battlefly Swarm

Flying {B}: Battlefly Swarm gains deathtouch until end of turn.

Creature
Battlefly Swarm (dmu) 81
1
Blackbloom Rogue

Creature
Blackbloom Rogue // Blackbloom Bog (znr) 91Blackbloom Rogue // Blackbloom Bog (znr) 91
1
Blight Keeper

Flying {7}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice Blight Keeper: Target opponent loses 4 life and you gain 4 life.

Creature
Blight Keeper (j22) 378
1
Changeling Outcast

Changeling (This card is every creature type.) Changeling Outcast can't block and can't be blocked.

Creature
Changeling Outcast (clb) 743
1
Dauthi Cutthroat

Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.) {1}{B}, {T}: Destroy target creature with shadow.

Creature
Dauthi Cutthroat (exo) 57
1
Dauthi Ghoul

Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.) Whenever a creature with shadow dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Dauthi Ghoul.

Creature
Dauthi Ghoul (tmp) 121
1
Dauthi Horror

Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.) Dauthi Horror can't be blocked by white creatures.

Creature
Dauthi Horror (clb) 748
1
Dauthi Jackal

Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.) {B}{B}, Sacrifice Dauthi Jackal: Destroy target blocking creature.

Creature
Dauthi Jackal (exo) 58
1
Dauthi Marauder

Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)

Creature
Dauthi Marauder (tmp) 123
1
Dauthi Mercenary

Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.) {1}{B}: Dauthi Mercenary gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Creature
Dauthi Mercenary (tmp) 124
1
Dauthi Mindripper

Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.) Whenever Dauthi Mindripper attacks and isn't blocked, you may sacrifice it. If you do, defending player discards three cards.

Creature
Dauthi Mindripper (plst) TMP-125
1
Dauthi Slayer

Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.) Dauthi Slayer attacks each combat if able.

Creature
Dauthi Slayer (tmp) 126
1
Dauthi Trapper

{T}: Target creature gains shadow until end of turn. (It can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)

Creature
Dauthi Trapper (sth) 56
1
Dauthi Voidwalker

Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.) If a card would be put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, instead exile it with a void counter on it. {T}, Sacrifice Dauthi Voidwalker: Choose an exiled card an opponent owns with a void counter on it. You may play it this turn without paying its mana cost.

Creature
Dauthi Voidwalker (mh2) 81
1
Dauthi Warlord

Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.) Dauthi Warlord's power is equal to the number of creatures with shadow on the battlefield.

Creature
Dauthi Warlord (exo) 59
1
Drana, Liberator of Malakir

Flying, first strike Whenever Drana, Liberator of Malakir deals combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on each attacking creature you control.

Creature
Drana, Liberator of Malakir (dmc) 111
1
Dread Presence

Whenever a Swamp enters the battlefield under your control, choose one — • You draw a card and you lose 1 life. • Dread Presence deals 2 damage to any target and you gain 2 life.

Creature
Dread Presence (j22) 403
1
Dreadmalkin

Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.) {2}{B}, Sacrifice another creature or planeswalker: Put two +1/+1 counters on Dreadmalkin.

Creature
Dreadmalkin (war) 87
1
Eyetwitch

Flying When Eyetwitch dies, learn. (You may reveal a Lesson card you own from outside the game and put it into your hand, or discard a card to draw a card.)

Creature
Eyetwitch (stx) 70
1
Forsworn Paladin

Menace {1}{B}, {T}, Pay 1 life: Create a Treasure token. {2}{B}: Target creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn. If mana from a Treasure was spent to activate this ability, that creature also gains deathtouch until end of turn.

Creature
Forsworn Paladin (afr) 104
1
Gingerbrute

Haste {1}: Gingerbrute can't be blocked this turn except by creatures with haste. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice Gingerbrute: You gain 3 life.

Creature Artifact
Gingerbrute (jmp) 466
1
Gray Merchant of Asphodel

When Gray Merchant of Asphodel enters the battlefield, each opponent loses X life, where X is your devotion to black. You gain life equal to the life lost this way. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)

Creature
Gray Merchant of Asphodel (scd) 80
1
Grim Hireling

Whenever one or more creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, create two Treasure tokens. {B}, Sacrifice X Treasures: Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creature
Grim Hireling (clb) 755
1
Hope of Ghirapur

Flying Sacrifice Hope of Ghirapur: Until your next turn, target player who was dealt combat damage by Hope of Ghirapur this turn can't cast noncreature spells.

Creature Artifact
Hope of Ghirapur (plst) AER-154
1
Murderous Rider

Creature
Murderous Rider // Swift End (moc) 258
1
Nether Traitor

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 Nether Traitor from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Creature
Nether Traitor (tsr) 127
1
Prickly Boggart

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

Creature
Prickly Boggart (mor) 74
1
Signal Pest

Battle cry (Whenever this creature attacks, each other attacking creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.) Signal Pest can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.

Creature Artifact
Signal Pest (mbs) 131
1
Spectrum Sentinel

Protection from multicolored (This creature can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, enchanted, or equipped by anything multicolored.) Whenever a nonbasic land enters the battlefield under an opponent's control, you gain 1 life.

Creature Artifact
Spectrum Sentinel (bro) 244
1
Stirge

Flying Stirge can't block. Blood Drain — {1}{B}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Stirge: Draw a card.

Creature
Stirge (clb) 150
1
Stronghold Overseer

Flying Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.) {B}{B}: Creatures with shadow get +1/+0 until end of turn and creatures without shadow get -1/-0 until end of turn.

Creature
Stronghold Overseer (tsp) 133
1
Stronghold Rats

Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.) Whenever Stronghold Rats deals combat damage to a player, each player discards a card.

Creature
Stronghold Rats (tsr) 142
1
Thrull Parasite

Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay {W/B}. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.) {T}, Pay 2 life: Remove a counter from target nonland permanent.

Creature
Thrull Parasite (gtc) 81
1
Tormented Soul

Tormented Soul can't block and can't be blocked.

Creature
Tormented Soul (j22) 477
1
Unwilling Ingredient

Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.) {2}{B}, Exile Unwilling Ingredient from your graveyard: You draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Creature
Unwilling Ingredient (stx) 90
1
Vampire Cutthroat

Skulk (This creature can't be blocked by creatures with greater power.) Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)

Creature
Vampire Cutthroat (emn) 110
1
Vampire of the Dire Moon

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.) Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)

Creature
Vampire of the Dire Moon (m20) 120
1

Enchantments

Quantity: 3Price: $5.28
Bad Moon

Black creatures get +1/+1.

Enchantment
Bad Moon (plst) DDD-48
1
Dauthi Embrace

{B}{B}: Target creature gains shadow until end of turn. (It can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)

Enchantment
Dauthi Embrace (tmp) 120
1
Larceny

Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, that player discards a card.

Enchantment
Larceny (8ed) 139★
1

Instants

Quantity: 15Price: $36.43
Alchemist's Gift

Target creature gets +1/+1 and gains your choice of deathtouch or lifelink until end of turn. (Any amount of damage a creature with deathtouch deals to a creature is enough to destroy it. Damage dealt by a creature with lifelink also causes its controller to gain that much life.)

Instant
Alchemist's Gift (m21) 87
1
Curtains' Call

Undaunted (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each opponent.) Destroy two target creatures.

Instant
Curtains' Call (clb) 746
1
Darkness

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

Instant
Darkness (leg) 94
1
Defile

Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn for each Swamp you control.

Instant
Defile (mh1) 86
1
Foul-Tongue Shriek

Target opponent loses 1 life for each attacking creature you control. You gain that much life.

Instant
Foul-Tongue Shriek (dtk) 103
1
Go for the Throat

Destroy target nonartifact creature.

Instant
Go for the Throat (moc) 250
1
Hagra Mauling

Instant
Hagra Mauling // Hagra Broodpit (znr) 106Hagra Mauling // Hagra Broodpit (znr) 106
1
Hellish Rebuke

Until end of turn, permanents your opponents control gain "When this permanent deals damage to the player who cast Hellish Rebuke, sacrifice this permanent. You lose 2 life."

Instant
Hellish Rebuke (afc) 26
1
Imp's Mischief

Change the target of target spell with a single target. You lose life equal to that spell's mana value.

Instant
Imp's Mischief (plc) 72
1
Infernal Grasp

Destroy target creature. You lose 2 life.

Instant
Infernal Grasp (mid) 107
1
Lethal Scheme

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.) Destroy target creature or planeswalker. Each creature that convoked Lethal Scheme connives. (Draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded a nonland card, put a +1/+1 counter on that creature.)

Instant
Lethal Scheme (ncc) 36
1
Malakir Rebirth

Instant
Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire (znr) 111Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire (znr) 111
1
Return to Action

Until end of turn, target creature gets +1/+0 and gains lifelink and "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control."

Instant
Return to Action (neo) 121
1
Sudden Spoiling

Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.) Until end of turn, creatures target player controls lose all abilities and have base power and toughness 0/2.

Instant
Sudden Spoiling (tsr) 144
1
Undying Evil

Target creature gains undying until end of turn. (When it dies, if it had no +1/+1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it.)

Instant
Undying Evil (dka) 77
1

Lands

Quantity: 31Price: $40.83
Bojuka Bog

Bojuka Bog enters the battlefield tapped. When Bojuka Bog enters the battlefield, exile target player's graveyard. {T}: Add {B}.

Land
Bojuka Bog (moc) 391
1
Cabal Stronghold

{T}: Add {C}. {3}, {T}: Add {B} for each basic Swamp you control.

Land
Cabal Stronghold (dom) 238
1
Contested War Zone

Whenever a creature deals combat damage to you, that creature's controller gains control of Contested War Zone. {T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Attacking creatures get +1/+0 until end of turn.

Land
Contested War Zone (mbs) 144
1
Hostile Hostel

Land
Hostile Hostel // Creeping Inn (mid) 264Hostile Hostel // Creeping Inn (mid) 264
1
Maze of Shadows

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Untap target attacking creature with shadow. Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by that creature this turn.

Land
Maze of Shadows (tmp) 319
1
Mortuary Mire

Mortuary Mire enters the battlefield tapped. When Mortuary Mire enters the battlefield, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library. {T}: Add {B}.

Land
Mortuary Mire (j22) 817
1
Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add {C}.

Land
Reliquary Tower (brc) 196
1
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (mom) 279
22
Takenuma, Abandoned Mire

{T}: Add {B}. Channel — {3}{B}, Discard Takenuma, Abandoned Mire: Mill three cards, then return a creature or planeswalker card from your graveyard to your hand. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Land
Takenuma, Abandoned Mire (neo) 278
1
Witch's Cottage

({T}: Add {B}.) Witch's Cottage enters the battlefield tapped unless you control three or more other Swamps. When Witch's Cottage enters the battlefield untapped, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Land
Witch's Cottage (eld) 249
1

Sorceries

Quantity: 2Price: $1.48
Predators' Hour

Until end of turn, creatures you control gain menace and "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, exile the top card of that player's library face down. You may look at and play that card for as long as it remains exiled, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast that spell."

Sorcery
Predators' Hour (voc) 21
1
Unearth

Return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Sorcery
Unearth (2x2) 96
1

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