Shahrazad
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Arabian NightsARN · #10
- Card type
- Sorcery
- Rarity
- Rare
- Indicative price
- 382.93 € · 475.00 $
- Mana value
- 2
- Colour
- White
Card text
Players play a Magic subgame, using their libraries as their decks. Each player who doesn't win the subgame loses half their life, rounded up.
Format legality
- CommanderBanned
- DuelBanned
- LegacyBanned
- OathbreakerBanned
- OldschoolLegal
- PredhBanned
- VintageBanned
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
- Kaja Foglio
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 1993-12-17
Rulings
At the start of the sub-game both players draw their initial hand (usually 7 cards). If one player has fewer cards than required, that player loses. If both have fewer than required, both players lose.
Events in a Shahrazad sub-game do not normally trigger abilities in the main game. And continuous effects in the main game do not carry over into the sub-game.
You randomly chose which player chooses to go first or draw first.
At the end of a subgame, each player puts all cards they own that are in the subgame into their library in the main game, then shuffles them. This includes cards in the subgame’s Exile zone.