Devour in Shadow

Devour in Shadow

Instant

Mana cost: {B}{B}

How we read this card

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

on-cast —

on-cast —

Causes: a creature dies, make a player lose life.

Cares about: nothing.

Works well with

a creature in a graveyard — 2,769 cards in the game can cause this (Devour in Shadow is one).

Devour in Shadow puts cards into the graveyard that:

  1. Chainer, Dementia Master — can bring back
  2. The Deck of Many Things — can bring back
  3. Afterlife from the Loam — can bring back
  4. Crypt Champion — can bring back
  5. Victor, Valgavoth's Seneschal — can bring back
  6. Push // Pull — can bring back
  7. Vivien on the Hunt — can bring back
  8. Virtus's Maneuver — can bring back
  9. Dredger's Insight — can bring back
  10. Bramble Familiar // Fetch Quest — can bring back

799 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a nontoken creature dies — 2,769 cards in the game can cause this (Devour in Shadow is one).

When a creature dies thanks to Devour in Shadow:

  1. Vraska, the Silencer — brings a card back
  2. High-Society Hunter — draws you 1 card
  3. Overseer of the Damned — makes a token
  4. Shelob, Dread Weaver — hits a graveyard
  5. Ghoulish Procession — makes a token
  6. Ogre Slumlord — makes a token
  7. Minotaur, Roxxon CEO — makes a token
  8. Harvester of Souls — draws you 1 card
  9. Magus of the Bridge — exiles itself
  10. Koh, the Face Stealer — exiles it

60 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a creature dies — 2,830 cards in the game can cause this (Devour in Shadow is one).

When a creature dies thanks to Devour in Shadow:

  1. Journey to Eternity // Atzal, Cave of Eternity — brings a card back
  2. Avatar Destiny — mills a card
  3. Blood Spatter Analysis — mills a card
  4. Shadows of the Past — scries
  5. Shriveling Rot — makes a player lose life equal to its toughness
  6. Meathook Massacre II — brings a card back
  7. Ashnod's Intervention — brings a card back
  8. Missy — brings a card back
  9. Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire — brings a card back
  10. Saffi Eriksdotter — sacrifices itself

451 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a creature goes to a graveyard — 3,011 cards in the game can cause this (Devour in Shadow is one).

When a creature hits the graveyard thanks to Devour in Shadow:

  1. Lorcan, Warlock Collector — brings a card back
  2. Lazav, Dimir Mastermind — copies a permanent
  3. Profane Memento — gains you 1 life
  4. Dennick, Pious Apprentice // Dennick, Pious Apparition — triggers

10 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

life is lost — 3,160 cards in the game can cause this (Devour in Shadow is one).

When Devour in Shadow makes a player lose life:

  1. The Master of Lake-town — mills a card
  2. Intermediate Chirography — puts a counter on a creature
  3. Vilis, Broker of Blood — draws you that many cards
  4. Oath of Lim-Dûl — sacrifices an enchantment
  5. Marina Vendrell's Grimoire — triggers
  6. Lich's Mastery — triggers
  7. Lich's Tomb — sacrifices a permanent
  8. Gonti's Machinations — puts a counter on a permanent you control

48 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

an instant is cast — 3,931 cards in the game can cause this (Devour in Shadow is one).

When Devour in Shadow is cast:

  1. Electro, Assaulting Battery — adds 1 mana
  2. Krile Baldesion — brings a card back
  3. Extus, Oriq Overlord // Awaken the Blood Avatar — brings a card back
  4. Cyclops Superconductor — gets +1/+1
  5. Jeskai Sage — gets +1/+1
  6. Pink Horror — deals 2 damage
  7. Cryptic Pursuit — triggers

430 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a card in a graveyard — 7,589 cards in the game can cause this (Devour in Shadow is one).

  1. Athreos, Shroud-Veiled — Devour in Shadow puts cards into the graveyard that Athreos, Shroud-Veiled can bring back

443 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.