Stronghold Rats 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
Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.) Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, each player discards a card.
How it works : Stronghold Rats
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
While resolving the triggered ability of Stronghold Rats, each player chooses a card in hand without revealing it, then all of the cards are discarded at the same time.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #2· Wizards of the Coast
Once a creature has been blocked, that creature remains blocked and will deal and be dealt combat damage even if it gains or loses shadow or if the blocking creature gains or loses shadow.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #3· Wizards of the Coast
If an attacking creature has multiple evasion abilities, such as shadow and flying, a creature can block it only if that creature satisfies all of the appropriate evasion abilities.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #4· Wizards of the Coast
Multiple instances of shadow on the same creature are redundant.
No other card is named in this ruling.
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