Shade of Trokair
Planar Chaos 18 • common
- Set
- Planar Chaos
- Collector number
- 18
- Rarity
- Common
- Mana cost
- 3 generic mana white mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- White
- Artist
- William O'Connor
- Market price
- $0.06
What it does
white mana: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
Suspend 3—white mana (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay white mana and exile it with three time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost. It has haste.)
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
Shade of Trokair was released in 2007 as part of the Planar Chaos set, the second expansion in the Time Spiral block for Magic: The Gathering. The set was built around the concept of an alternate reality where historical events in the game's multiverse had played out differently. This card specifically explores a 'color-shifted' design philosophy, reinterpreting the mechanics of the iconic black card 'Nantuko Shade' into the color white, a mechanical shift that was unconventional for the game at the time.
The card features artwork by Christopher Moeller, a prolific illustrator known for his dynamic, painterly style that helped define the visual identity of the era. By placing the Shade, traditionally a creature associated with swamp-dwelling shadows, into a white-aligned context, the design team aimed to challenge player expectations regarding color identity. The card received significant attention from the competitive community for its unique ability to bring aggressive, pumpable creature mechanics into a color that typically relied on different tactical approaches.
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