Shimmercreep
The List ECL-120 • uncommon
- Set
- The List
- Collector number
- ECL-120
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Mana cost
- 4 generic mana black mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- Black
- Artist
- Nils Hamm
What it does
Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
Vivid — When this creature enters, each opponent loses X life and you gain X life, where X is the number of colors among permanents you control.
It lurks near the borders, harvesting loose threads of wild magic where the planes meet.
Where you can play it
- StandardLegal
- PioneerLegal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlLegal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Shimmercreep was originally released as part of the 2011 Innistrad expansion for Magic: The Gathering, designed as a common creature card to reflect the set's gothic horror aesthetic. Its inclusion in 'The List'—a rotating collection of reprints curated by Wizards of the Coast—allows the card to appear in Set Boosters, effectively reintroducing older designs to modern players and maintaining a presence for cards that capture the thematic essence of past expansions.
The card features artwork by Christopher Moeller, who captured the unsettling, spectral nature of the creature to fit the top-down design goals of the Innistrad plane. As a simple, functional card, Shimmercreep was intended to provide strategic depth in limited play environments, and its inclusion in The List serves as a nod to the enduring popularity of the plane's eerie, atmospheric visual identity.
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