Dread Shade
Dominaria 88 • rare
- Set
- Dominaria
- Collector number
- 88
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana cost
- black mana black mana black mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- Black
- Artist
- G-host Lee
- Market price
- $0.28
What it does
black mana: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
"The forest surrounding the Vess estate became the Caligo Morass, a vast bog stalked by horrors too terrible to name."— "The Fall of the House of Vess"
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerLegal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlLegal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Dread Shade was released in 2018 as part of the Dominaria expansion for Magic: The Gathering. The card was designed as a thematic callback to the classic card Sengir Shade, featuring the iconic 'pump' mechanic where players can pay black mana to increase the creature's power and toughness until the end of the turn. This iteration served to highlight the dark, gothic aesthetic of the Dominaria plane and provided a powerful, scalable threat for black-aligned decks in the game's limited and constructed formats.
The artwork for the card was created by Deruchenko Alexander, who chose a stark, haunting visual style to convey the creature's ethereal and menacing nature. By emphasizing deep shadows and a skeletal, wraith-like form, the illustration leans into the traditional horror tropes associated with black-mana creatures. Upon its release, the card was well-received by players for its efficiency and its ability to act as a mana sink, effectively anchoring the mid-to-late game for aggressive black decks.
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