Shadowborn Apostle

Creature — Human Cleric

A deck can have any number of cards named Shadowborn Apostle.

{B}, Sacrifice six creatures named Shadowborn Apostle: Search your library for a Demon creature card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle your library.

Combos

• Shadowborn Apostle + Thrumming Stone

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Historic Brawl	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pauper	Legal
Pauper Duel Commander	Legal
Pauper EDH	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (45)

Andramalech on UB Turn 3 Emrakul (4 real)

5 months ago

sergiodelrio you absolute mad man. I am infatuated with the unorthodox nature of this deck, much like what Balaam__ had said above. This deck is a thing of beauty, and you've got me trying to think of a way to exploit the Shadowborn Apostle thing you mentioned, where it removes a grand portion of your own deck. I think you've made an accidental meta-breaker shell.

Noire_Samhain on Can a creature with the …

9 months ago

No, one can't run one copy as companion and one copy of the same as commander. The singleton rule applies to every card except for those with rules saying otherwise (Shadowborn Apostle, Persistent Petitioners, Slime Against Humanity, etc.). This would include any companions and any rule 0'd in sideboards/wishboards.

Gadianten on Divine Machinations (Cleric Tribal)

10 months ago

Hey GrimlockVIII, thank you for the suggestion. I have had Rotlung Reanimator in the early drafts of the deck but removed him, the challenge is that Angel of Glory's Rise exiles all zombies. While understanding the stack allows for a one shot generation of infinite zombie tokens, I usually draw so many cards I dig up the life drain combo anyway. Field testing him I found he never seemed to make a significant impact and space is incredibly tight for the deck and I find my self wanting more card draw or life gain. Now, if I was running Shadowborn Apostle it would be hilarious.

austintayshus on Card creation challenge

1 year ago

God-Eternal Ilharg {3}{B}{R}{R}

Legendary Creature - Boar God Zombie

Trample

When God-Eternal Ilharg attacks, you may put a creature card from your hand or your graveyard onto the battlefield tapped and attacking. If that creature would die this turn, exile it instead. At the end of this turn, exile that creature.

When God-Eternal Ilharg dies or is put into exile from the battlefield, you may put it into its owner's library third from the top.

7/6

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I decided to give him access to black because eternalized creatures are black in game. Also to give his ability access to the graveyard. However, idk why I did that because none of the other god-eternals got any new colors to play with. -shrug-

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Challenge: Make a white card with the Shadowborn Apostle "a deck can have any number of this card" ability. I think each color has a card like that except for white.

Made_Compleat on New hubs to be added

1 year ago

The thing is, it's harder to compare decks without hubs. Dragon's Approach, Shadowborn Apostle, Slime Against Humanity etc. are all themes on EDHREC, which encourages me to think that they should have their own hubs.

legendofa on Rat Colony hub

1 year ago

sergiodelrio I'm also avoiding loose and vague hubs names. They get used incorrectly or are broad to the point of all-inclusive.

Vague hub names have caused problems in the past. One hub in particular (Team America, now inactive) was being used for the wrong decks entirely. It's a Legacy {B}{G}{U} tempo shell from 2008-2009, but was being treated as a synonym for any Jeskai deck, which is about as far away from the intended definition as you can get. I understand the source of the confusion, but a confusing hub is not a good hub, in my opinion. If it can't be understood at a glance, it's going to get reworked.

"Reduced variance" or "low variance" also already exists, kind of, as the "competitive" hub. The whole intent of competitive decks is to reduce variance as much as possible, so that the deck is as streamlined and consistent as possible. This is achieved through tutors, redundancy, deck manipulation, using playsets of cards, and so on. So what would be the criteria for inclusion in a "low variance" hub? I expect that a "low variance" hub would be highly subjective, used for any deck that its creator thinks is unusually consistent, whether or not it actually is.

I have also declined to put in a real tutor hub so far for similar reasons. How many tutors do you need to have to be a "tutor" deck? Is four enough, with Imperial Seal, Vampiric Tutor, Diabolic Tutor, and Diabolic Intent? What about Eladamri's Call, Green Sun's Zenith, Natural Order, Buried Alive, Terramorphic Expanse, Misty Rainforest, Mystical Tutor... What would be a short and solid description of a "tutor" deck? "A deck that regularly searches its library" would include landfall decks, almost every competitive EDH deck, "silver bullet" decks, and hatebear decks, all of which already have their own hub, and probably more. "A deck with seven or more card that search its owner's library" is arbitrary, as is any other number for inclusion. "A deck that regularly searches its library for specific cards that help it advance its win condition"--nah, I'm going to search for this useless card that doesn't help me at all.

Incidentally, "scry" is already available as a hub in the keyword/subtype checklist.

If a hub includes a $300 Dragon's Approach Pioneer deck, a $80 Elrond, Master of Healing casual Commander deck, and a $50,000 Vintage Beseech the Mirror deck, that hub becomes even broader than the aggro/combo/control archetypes, and as such becomes almost meaningless. I've added Dragon's Approach, Rat Colony, and Shadowborn Apostle to the short list for consideration, so they might be coming soon; I didn't see as many decks or as much diversity for Persistent Petitioners. And don't worry about a long post, as long as it's meaningful. It shows the idea has people willing to defend it and fight for it, which makes it more likely to be included one way or another.

legendofa on New hubs to be added

1 year ago

Felipix The problem with "unlimited copies" is that there's no real mechanical similarities between the cards that have that ability. A Rat Colony deck is different from a Shadowborn Apostle deck is different from a Dragon's Approach deck, aside from one deckbuilding rule change.

I'm not trying to shut down your ideas, I promise. And I might just add a separate hub for each of those cards anyway; I'll add them to the short list for review. I'm just wary of setting too strong of a precedent.

legendofa on Rat Colony hub

1 year ago

Felipix I generally don't like adding hubs based around single cards, but I agree that there's a good amount of diversity in the Rat Colony decks here. My big concern is that the next hub suggestions will be for Dragon's Approach, Shadowborn Apostle, Persistent Petitioners, and whatever else comes down the line. Is it worth it to have separate hubs for all these cards?

By the way, there's a thread to suggest new hubs here.