Stronghold Rats
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Time Spiral RemasteredTSR · #142
- Card type
- Creature — Rat
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Indicative price
- 0.39 € · ★ 1.66 € · 0.62 $ · ★ 2.11 $
- Mana value
- 3
- Power
- 2
- Toughness
- 1
- Colour
- Black
Card text
Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.) Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, each player discards a card.
Format legality
- CommanderLegal
- DuelLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PredhLegal
- VintageLegal
Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).
Indicative Scryfall prices, updated daily. ★: foil; ★ E: etched foil. EUR and USD represent different markets.
Printing information
- Illustrator
- Brandon Kitkouski
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2021-03-19
Flavour text
In the stronghold's dungeons, the shadows hide in the vermin.
Rulings
If an attacking creature has multiple evasion abilities, such as shadow and flying, a creature can block it only if that creature satisfies all of the appropriate evasion abilities.
Multiple instances of shadow on the same creature are redundant.
Once a creature has been blocked, that creature remains blocked and will deal and be dealt combat damage even if it gains or loses shadow or if the blocking creature gains or loses shadow.
While resolving the triggered ability of Stronghold Rats, each player chooses a card in hand without revealing it, then all of the cards are discarded at the same time.
