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Ihsan's Shade - Shade Tribal
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Commander

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Ihsan's Shade

Protection from white

Creature
Ihsan's Shade (hml) 53

Commander

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Ramp

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Crypt Ghast

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.) Whenever you tap a Swamp for mana, add an additional {B}.

Creature
Crypt Ghast (c14) 139
Expedition Map

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Artifact
Expedition Map (zen) 201
Heraldic Banner

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

Artifact
Heraldic Banner (eld) 222
Magus of the Coffers

{2}, {T}: Add {B} for each Swamp you control.

Creature
Magus of the Coffers (c14) 148
Nirkana Revenant

Whenever you tap a Swamp for mana, add an additional {B}. {B}: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Creature
Nirkana Revenant (bbd) 150
Scampering Surveyor

When this creature enters, search your library for a basic land card or Cave card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature Artifact
Scampering Surveyor (lci) 260
Sol Ring

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Sol Ring (c20) 252
Solemn Simulacrum

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. When this creature dies, you may draw a card.

Creature Artifact
Solemn Simulacrum (m21) 239
Wayfarer's Bauble

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Artifact
Wayfarer's Bauble (cm2) 229

Ramp

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Turn into Shade

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Genju of the Fens

Enchant Swamp {2}: Until end of turn, enchanted Swamp becomes a 2/2 black Spirit creature with "{B}: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn." It's still a land. When enchanted Swamp is put into a graveyard, you may return this card from your graveyard to your hand.

Enchantment
Genju of the Fens (bok) 66
Midnight Covenant

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has "{B}: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn."

Enchantment
Midnight Covenant (chk) 125
Shade's Form

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has "{B}: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn." When enchanted creature dies, return that card to the battlefield under your control.

Enchantment
Shade's Form (tor) 81

Turn into Shade

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Card Draw

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Ambition's Cost

You draw three cards and you lose 3 life.

Sorcery
Ambition's Cost (c17) 95
Ancient Craving

You draw three cards and you lose 3 life.

Sorcery
Ancient Craving (ddk) 28
Herald's Horn

As this artifact enters, choose a creature type. Creature spells you cast of the chosen type cost {1} less to cast. At the beginning of your upkeep, look at the top card of your library. If it's a creature card of the chosen type, you may reveal it and put it into your hand.

Artifact
Herald's Horn (plst) C17-53
Icon of Ancestry

As this artifact enters, choose a creature type. Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1. {3}, {T}: Look at the top three cards of your library. You may reveal a creature card of the chosen type from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Artifact
Icon of Ancestry (m20) 229
Liliana of the Dark Realms

+1: Search your library for a Swamp card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. −3: Target creature gets +X/+X or -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of Swamps you control. −6: You get an emblem with "Swamps you control have '{T}: Add {B}{B}{B}{B}.'"

Planeswalker
Liliana of the Dark Realms (m14) 102
Pact of the Serpent

Choose a creature type. Target player draws X cards and loses X life, where X is the number of creatures they control of the chosen type.

Sorcery
Pact of the Serpent (khc) 9
Phyrexian Arena

At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Enchantment
Phyrexian Arena (c15) 130
Promise of Power

Choose one — • You draw five cards and you lose 5 life. • Create an X/X black Demon creature token with flying, where X is the number of cards in your hand. Entwine {4} (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

Sorcery
Promise of Power (mrd) 74
Read the Bones

Scry 2, then draw two cards. You lose 2 life. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

Sorcery
Read the Bones (ths) 101
Syphon Mind

Each other player discards a card. You draw a card for each card discarded this way.

Sorcery
Syphon Mind (ons) 175
Vanquisher's Banner

As this artifact enters, choose a creature type. Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1. Whenever you cast a creature spell of the chosen type, draw a card.

Artifact
Vanquisher's Banner (xln) 251

Card Draw

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Recursion

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Sepulchral Primordial

Intimidate (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.) When this creature enters, for each opponent, you may put up to one target creature card from that player's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

Creature
Sepulchral Primordial (gtc) 75
Soul of Innistrad

Deathtouch {3}{B}{B}: Return up to three target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand. {3}{B}{B}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Return up to three target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Soul of Innistrad (m15) 115

Recursion

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Utility

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Darkness

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

Instant
Darkness (tsb) 40
Exsanguinate

Each opponent loses X life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Sorcery
Exsanguinate (som) 61
Haunting Voyage

Choose a creature type. Return up to two creature cards of that type from your graveyard to the battlefield. If this spell was foretold, return all creature cards of that type from your graveyard to the battlefield instead. Foretell {5}{B}{B} (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)

Sorcery
Haunting Voyage (khm) 98
Nihil Spellbomb

{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Exile target player's graveyard. When this artifact is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay {B}. If you do, draw a card.

Artifact
Nihil Spellbomb (som) 187
Ring of Xathrid

{2}: Regenerate equipped creature. (The next time that creature would be destroyed this turn, instead tap it, remove it from combat, and heal all damage on it.) At the beginning of your upkeep, put a +1/+1 counter on equipped creature if it's black. Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Ring of Xathrid (m13) 215
Sunstone

{2}, Sacrifice a snow land: Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

Artifact
Sunstone (ice) 341
Temporal Extortion

When you cast this spell, any player may pay half their life, rounded up. If a player does, counter Temporal Extortion. Take an extra turn after this one.

Sorcery
Temporal Extortion (plc) 81

Utility

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Evasion

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Filth

Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.) As long as this card is in your graveyard and you control a Swamp, creatures you control have swampwalk.

Creature
Filth (jud) 66
Whispersilk Cloak

Equipped creature can't be blocked and has shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.) Equip {2}

Artifact
Whispersilk Cloak (dst) 160

Evasion

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Removal

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Nameless Inversion

Changeling (This card is every creature type.) Target creature gets +3/-3 and loses all creature types until end of turn.

Instant Kindred
Nameless Inversion (p09) 4

Removal

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Wrath

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Decree of Pain

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated. Draw a card for each creature destroyed this way. Cycling {3}{B}{B} ({3}{B}{B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, all creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn.

Sorcery
Decree of Pain (c13) 72
Mutilate

All creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn for each Swamp you control.

Sorcery
Mutilate (gvl) 55

Wrath

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Land

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Accursed Duneyard

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: Regenerate target Shade, Skeleton, Specter, Spirit, Vampire, Wraith, or Zombie. (The next time it would be destroyed this turn, instead tap it, remove it from combat, and heal all damage on it.)

Land
Accursed Duneyard (drc) 20
Barren Moor

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}. Cycling {B} ({B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Barren Moor (ons) 312
Bojuka Bog

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, exile target player's graveyard. {T}: Add {B}.

Land
Bojuka Bog (wwk) 132
Cabal Coffers

{2}, {T}: Add {B} for each Swamp you control.

Land
Cabal Coffers (f07) 10
Cabal Stronghold

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

Land
Cabal Stronghold (dom) 238
Castle Locthwain

This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp. {T}: Add {B}. {1}{B}{B}, {T}: Draw a card, then you lose life equal to the number of cards in your hand.

Land
Castle Locthwain (peld) 241p
Crypt of Agadeem

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}. {2}, {T}: Add {B} for each black creature card in your graveyard.

Land
Crypt of Agadeem (c14) 288
Ghost Quarter

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target land. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Ghost Quarter (c14) 298
Myriad Landscape

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for up to two basic land cards that share a land type, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Myriad Landscape (c20) 292
Rogue's Passage

{T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Land
Rogue's Passage (c20) 303
Snow-Covered Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Snow-Covered Swamp (mh1) 252
Spymaster's Vault

This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp. {T}: Add {B}. {B}, {T}: Target creature you control connives X, where X is the number of creatures that died this turn. (Draw X cards, then discard X cards. Put a +1/+1 counter on that creature for each nonland card discarded this way.)

Land
Spymaster's Vault (mh3) 358
Terrain Generator

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: You may put a basic land card from your hand onto the battlefield tapped.

Land
Terrain Generator (nem) 143

Land

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Shades

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Author of Shadows

When this creature enters, exile all opponents' graveyards. Choose a nonland card exiled this way. You may cast 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.

Creature
Author of Shadows (c21) 362
Chilling Shade

Flying {S}: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn. ({S} can be paid with one mana from a snow source.)

Creature
Chilling Shade (csp) 53
Crypt Ripper

Haste {B}: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Creature
Crypt Ripper (zen) 85
Darkling Stalker

{B}: Regenerate this creature. {B}: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Creature
Darkling Stalker (tmp) 119
Deepwood Legate

If an opponent controls a Forest and you control a Swamp, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost. {B}: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Creature
Deepwood Legate (mmq) 132
Dread Shade

{B}: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Creature
Dread Shade (dom) 88
Drifting Shade

Flying {B}: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Creature
Drifting Shade (m12) 96
Dungeon Shade

Flying {B}: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Creature
Dungeon Shade (sth) 58
Evernight Shade

{B}: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn. Undying (When this creature 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.)

Creature
Evernight Shade (avr) 101
Fetid Horror

{B}: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Creature
Fetid Horror (mir) 123
Frozen Shade

{B}: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Creature
Frozen Shade (4ed) 138
Gateway Shade

{B}: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn. Tap an untapped Gate you control: This creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Creature
Gateway Shade (gtc) 65
Ghostly Changeling

Changeling (This card is every creature type.) {1}{B}: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Creature
Ghostly Changeling (lrw) 116
Hoar Shade

{B}: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Creature
Hoar Shade (ice) 131
Liliana's Shade

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a Swamp card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. {B}: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Creature
Liliana's Shade (m13) 98
Looming Shade

{B}: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Creature
Looming Shade (7ed) 145★
Misery's Shadow

If a creature an opponent controls would die, exile it instead. {1}: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Creature
Misery's Shadow (bro) 330
Nakaya Shade

{B}: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn unless any player pays {2}.

Creature
Nakaya Shade (pcy) 69
Nantuko Shade

{B}: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Creature
Nantuko Shade (m11) 106
Nightwing Shade

Flying {1}{B}: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Creature
Nightwing Shade (m14) 109
Perilous Shadow

{1}{B}: This creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Creature
Perilous Shadow (rtr) 74
Skyclave Shade

Kicker {2}{B} This creature can't block. If this creature was kicked, it enters with two +1/+1 counters on it. Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, if this card is in your graveyard and it's your turn, you may cast it from your graveyard this turn.

Creature
Skyclave Shade (znr) 298
Slithering Shade

Defender (This creature can't attack.) {B}: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn. Hellbent — This creature can attack as though it didn't have defender as long as you have no cards in hand.

Creature
Slithering Shade (dis) 55
Undercity Shade

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.) {B}: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Creature
Undercity Shade (rav) 110
Whispering Shade

Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.) {B}: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Creature
Whispering Shade (ody) 167

Shades

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Sideboard

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Charcoal Diamond

This artifact enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}.

Artifact
Charcoal Diamond (clb) 305
Cursed Ronin

Bushido 1 (Whenever this creature blocks or becomes blocked, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) {B}: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Creature
Cursed Ronin (chk) 107
Desert of the Glorified

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}. Cycling {1}{B} ({1}{B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Desert of the Glorified (hou) 171
Hailstorm Valkyrie

Flying, trample {S}{S}: This creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. ({S} can be paid with one mana from a snow source.)

Creature
Hailstorm Valkyrie (khm) 97
Polluted Mire

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Polluted Mire (usg) 323
Thirsting Shade

Lifelink {2}{B}: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Creature
Thirsting Shade (rna) 87

Sideboard

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Description

{"ops":[{"insert":"Another casual deck, this time featuring mostly shades, cards that can name \"shade\", cards that appear to have artwork that is \"shade-like\", or cards that are \"shade-adjacent\" such as B:+1/+1. There are a few exceptions to allow for big mana to pump into the shade effects or grant evasion.\n"}]}
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