Grasping Shadows // Shadows' Lair
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
The Lost Caverns of IxalanLCI · #108
- Card type
- Enchantment
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Indicative price
- 0.09 € · ★ 0.20 € · 0.22 $ · ★ 0.32 $
- Mana value
- 4
- Colour
- Black
Card text
Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, it gains deathtouch and lifelink until end of turn. Put a dread counter on this enchantment. Then if there are three or more dread counters on it, transform it.
Format legality
- BrawlLegal
- CommanderLegal
- CompetitivebrawlLegal
- DuelLegal
- FutureLegal
- GladiatorLegal
- HistoricLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PioneerLegal
- StandardLegal
- StandardbrawlLegal
- TimelessLegal
- VintageLegal
Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).
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Printing information
- Illustrator
- Sam Wolfe Connelly
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2023-11-17
Shadows' Lair
Land — Cave
(Transforms from Grasping Shadows.) : Add . , , Remove a dread counter from this land: You draw a card and you lose 1 life.
Rulings
A creature attacks alone if it's the only creature declared as an attacker during the declare attackers step. For example, the triggered ability of Grasping Shadows won't trigger if you attack with multiple creatures and all but one of them are removed from combat.
Grasping Shadows keeps its dread counters as it transforms into Shadows' Lair.
Once the ability of Grasping Shadows has triggered, creatures entering the battlefield attacking won't affect that ability.