Shadowborn Apostle
Secret Lair Drop 686 • rare
- Set
- Secret Lair Drop
- Collector number
- 686
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana cost
- black mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- Black
- Artist
- MURUGIAH
- Finish
- Foil
What it does
A deck can have any number of cards named Shadowborn Apostle.
black mana, Sacrifice six creatures named Shadowborn Apostle: Search your library for a Demon creature card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerLegal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperLegal
- BrawlLegal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
The Shadowborn Apostle first appeared in the Magic: The Gathering set Magic 2014, designed as a thematic pillar for black-aligned creature decks that rely on deck thinning and demon summoning. The card is mechanically unique, as it explicitly overrides the game's core deck-building restriction that limits players to four copies of a single card, allowing for an army of acolytes to facilitate a specific, ritualistic strategy.
This particular version, numbered 686, was released as part of a Secret Lair drop. The Secret Lair series serves as a boutique initiative by Wizards of the Coast, commissioning diverse artists to reimagine classic cards with specialized, often surreal or gothic aesthetics. The design for this iteration emphasizes the cultist imagery central to the character's identity, leaning into a dark, illustrative style that highlights the card's function as a sacrificial pawn in a larger, more malevolent game.
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