Death's Shadow is one of those cards players keep asking about. Here is, in plain words, what its official text says, the rulings published by Wizards of the Coast, and the combos players actually run.
Official card text
This creature gets -X/-X, where X is your life total.
How it works : Death's Shadow
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
Death's Shadow's ability applies only while Death's Shadow is on the battlefield. In all other zones, its power and toughness are 13.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #2· Wizards of the Coast
The value of X changes as you gain and lose life. It's not locked in as Death's Shadow enters the battlefield.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #3· Wizards of the Coast
If your life total is negative, X is considered to be 0.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #4· Wizards of the Coast
In a Two-Headed Giant game, your life total is your team's life total.
No other card is named in this ruling.
Popular combos
Real combos played by the community, sorted by popularity.
Cloudstone Curio + Death's Shadow + Phyrexian Altar + Life Finds a Way
- 1Cast Death's Shadow by paying
. - 2When Death's Shadow enters the battlefield, Cloudstone Curio and Life Finds a Way trigger.
- 3Resolve the Cloudstone Curio trigger, doing nothing.
- 4Resolve the Life Finds a Way trigger, creating a copy of any nonartifact creature token you control.
- 5When the creature token enters the battlefield, Cloudstone Curio triggers, returning Death's Shadow to your hand from the battlefield.
- 6Activate Phyrexian Altar by sacrificing a creature token, adding .
- 7Repeat.
Gwenna, Eyes of Gaea + Cloudstone Curio + Death's Shadow
- 1Activate Gwenna by tapping it, adding
that can only be spent to cast creature spells or to activate abilities of creature cards. - 2Cast Death's Shadow by paying .
- 3Gwenna triggers, putting a +1/+1 counter on it and untapping it.
- 4When Death's Shadow enters the battlefield, Cloudstone Curio triggers, returning another nontoken nonartifact creature that can be cast using one colored mana from the battlefield to your hand.
- 5Cast the creature by paying its mana cost.
- 6When the creature enters the battlefield, Cloudstone Curio triggers, returning Death's Shadow from the battlefield to your hand.
- 7Repeat.
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