Devour in Shadow

Instant

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. You lose life equal to that creature's toughness.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (43)

kamarupa on Ally Do Is Win

1 month ago

Why Bone Splinters? It just seems like a bad option for this build. The more Allies you have, the better, so saccing one is kind of painful. AND it's only sorcery speed? Vendetta seems aligned with the deck's strong suits - you don't have any spells like Speaker of the Heavens that has a lifegain threshold, so whatever life you gain is just insurance anyway, right? There's also Path to Exile, Fatal Push, Cut Down, Cast Down, Devour in Shadow... so many more. I know some of those are over $1, but really, the added cost isn't that significant, and there are def plenty of instant speed removal spells for under $1.

Flodder on Vilis gives and Vilis takes

7 months ago

These cards are great for constantly losing life. I used to play some of those. Unfortunately when I play this deck with friends, they would mainly target me. Therefore my life total goes down very fast. No need to accelerate it even more. Usually I set everything up for one big turn, draw 20-30 cards at once and then win with whatever combo pieces I just drew. For example I used to play even City of Brass just for the life loss, but eventually had to remove it from the deck. I often ended up killing myself.

However, I totally missed that Cruel Tutor exists, I will absolutely add that one, thanks! Also I will consider Devour in Shadow and Ulcerate

thank you!!

Azoth2099 on Vilis gives and Vilis takes

7 months ago

Flodder

My main man Vilis!

Consider the following: Dark Confidant, Dark Tutelage, Black Market Connections, Ulcerate, Devour in Shadow, Feed the Swarm, Cruel Tutor, Plunge into Darkness, Blood Celebrant, Sign in Blood & Jinxed Ring.

Happy brewing!

wallisface on B/U Land Mill

1 year ago

This isn’t too far off competitive mill decks, and i think it should fare fairly well tbh. Here’s some thoughts for improvements though:

• 20 lands is pretty low, especially when you benefit from them so much with the crabs. I’d say 22 lands is generally a more optimal count for Mill.

• You probably want a playset of Field of Ruin as part of your land base. It can help get more crab triggers, and forces your opponent to search so lets you Archive Trap them.

• Devour in Shadow feels like a really odd choice as its going to hurt you an unreasonable amount (and the double-black casting cost is rough too). I’d suggest Infernal Grasp as a strict upgrade, though also Fatal Push should just serve you better in almost all situations anyway.

Dead_Blue_ on Budget Death's Shadow Help!

1 year ago

I used to run a Mono Black Death’s Shadow deck before Death’s Shadow was a real deck. I’d run spells like Vendetta and Devour in Shadow with creatures like Sangrophage …dunno how viable it is today. It just some ideas

Infernal Grasp is probably the way to go

Coward_Token on Innistrad: Midnight Hunt and Crimson …

2 years ago

huff puff

pwew

So a sneak peek dropped. Do you still want to use this thread?

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(I haven't looked trough the whole YouTube video, just read the article, so feel free to point out stuff I missed.)

Arlinn Kord  ^Flip's werewolf side seems to match the promo art, tho I wonder what her color(s) will be with Wrenn and Seven in mind.

Infernal Grasp: Almost strictly better Devour in Shadow, oh my. For EDH at least, it's nice that black is getting single-target creature removal that approaches Swords to Plowshares

Champion of the Perished: "cute" reference to Champion of the Parish

Consider: Surprised this hasn't been done yet

Triskaidekaphile: I can't seem to count to thirteen fingers in the art but whatever. A 1/3 for 2 and 4 to draw a card isn't bad on its own, never mind that potentially explosive win con (please don't feed the fish)

"Two Commander decks: Undead Unleashed and Coven Counters": This worries me because the first one sounds like Zombie tribal, while the second one is likely GW Humans. Will they seriously not include a Werewolf commander deck in this set? Or will it maybe be RGW Human/Werewolf tribal? Eh, whatever. (Not like they're showing up in "Spirit Squadron" or "Vampiric Bloodline" instead.)

legendofa on Darkest Darkness

2 years ago

If you're still looking at Death's Shadow and thinking about flavor (from a comment from four years ago), Devour in Shadow has both the mechanics and flavor to be worth considering.

KingKilvas on No Reservations

2 years ago

Nice deck! If you wanna go even harder on the theme a few cards that hit the 'flavor' and are still playable for a budget deck; Consume the Meek , Consumptive Goo , Rite of Consumption , Devour Flesh , Devour in Shadow , Devouring Swarm , Devouring Tendrils , Faceless Devourer , Feast of Succession , Feast of Worms , Feaster of Fools , Grothama, All-Devouring , Soul Swallower , Gluttonous Slime , Marrow Chomper , Mycoloth , Ravenous Gigantotherium , and Skullmuncher

And, best of all, Hot Soup . Gotta run hot spip with Gyome, it's too perfect.