Aphotic Wisps
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
The ListPLST · #SHM-55
- Card type
- Instant
- Rarity
- Common
- Indicative price
- 0.29 € · 0.28 $
- Mana value
- 1
- Colour
- Black
Card text
Target creature becomes black and gains fear until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.) Draw a card.
Format legality
- CommanderLegal
- DuelLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PauperLegal
- PaupercommanderLegal
- PennyLegal
- 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
- Jim Nelson
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2020-09-26
Flavour text
Merrows skulk the silty bogs around the Wanderbrine, their very thoughts stained with evil.
Rulings
An effect that changes a permanent’s colors overwrites all its old colors unless it specifically says “in addition to its other colors.” For example, after Cerulean Wisps resolves, the affected creature will just be blue. It doesn’t matter what colors it used to be (even if, for example, it used to be blue and black).
Changing a permanent’s color won’t change its text. If you turn Wilt-Leaf Liege blue, it will still affect green creatures and white creatures.
Colorless is not a color.
