Aphotic Wisps
Shadowmoor 55 • common
- Set
- Shadowmoor
- Collector number
- 55
- Rarity
- Common
- Mana cost
- black mana
- Type
- Instant
- Colors
- Black
- Artist
- Jim Nelson
- Market price
- $1.80
What it does
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.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperLegal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Aphotic Wisps was released in 2008 as part of the Shadowmoor expansion for the Magic: The Gathering trading card game. Set on the plane of Lorwyn, which had been transformed into the darker, more unsettling Shadowmoor, the card captures the eerie essence of the set's twilight aesthetic. It was designed as a low-cost, versatile spell that grants a creature protection from a chosen color while allowing the player to draw a card, emphasizing the set's focus on color-matters mechanics and hybrid mana.
The card features illustration by Cyril Van Der Haegen, who contributed to several sets during this era. His work on this piece conveys a sense of ephemeral darkness, aligning with the Shadowmoor block's gothic, folklore-inspired art direction. Upon its release, the card was received as a functional utility piece in limited play formats, noted for its ability to cycle through the deck while providing situational evasion or defense against opponent colors.
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