Grasping Shadows // Shadows' Lair
Card Information
Type (Front): Enchantment
Type (Back): Land — Cave
Mana Cost (Front): 3
CMC: 4
Part of the Reserved List: No
Color Identity:
Set: The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI)
Rarity: Uncommon
Collector Number: 108
Oracle Text
Grasping Shadows
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.
Shadows' Lair
(Transforms from Grasping Shadows.) {T}: Add {B}. {B}, {T}, Remove a dread counter from this land: You draw a card and you lose 1 life.
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Format Legalities
Card Rulings
- November 10, 2023
Grasping Shadows keeps its dread counters as it transforms into Shadows' Lair.
Source: wotc - November 10, 2023
Once the ability of Grasping Shadows has triggered, creatures entering the battlefield attacking won't affect that ability.
Source: wotc - November 10, 2023
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.
Source: wotc
Price History
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