Shadow Kin
Midnight Hunt Commander 54 • rare
- Set
- Midnight Hunt Commander
- Collector number
- 54
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana cost
- 3 generic mana blue mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- Blue
- Artist
- Irvin Rodriguez
- Market price
- $1.36
What it does
Flash
At the beginning of your upkeep, each player mills three cards. You may exile a creature card from among the cards milled this way. If you do, this creature becomes a copy of that card, except it has this ability.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernNot legal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Shadow Kin was released in 2021 as part of the Innistrad: Midnight Hunt Commander set, a collection themed around the gothic horror landscape of the Magic: The Gathering multiverse. The design of the card leans into the set's central motifs of shifting identities, darkness, and the fragile boundary between the material and spectral worlds. It functions as a shapeshifting utility creature, reflecting the broader mechanics of the set which emphasize graveyard interactions and transformational elements inherent to the Innistrad plane.
The card was illustrated by Irvin Rodriguez, who employed a high-contrast aesthetic to evoke the unsettling, ethereal quality of the Shadow Kin. By focusing on silhouettes and shadowy forms, Rodriguez sought to capture the essence of a creature that exists as an echo of its target. Upon its release, the card was received as a nuanced tactical tool for Commander players, valued for its ability to scale with the power levels of opposing creatures while maintaining the thematic cohesion of a horror-inspired deck.
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