Dragon Shadow
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +1/+0 and has fear. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
When a creature with mana value 6 or greater enters, you may return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield attached to that creature.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Scourge
- Price
- $0.17
- EDHREC rank
- #15455
Dragon Shadow gives a creature fear and, on any turn a creature with power 5 or greater enters your graveyard, returns itself from the graveyard to the battlefield attached to that creature — the recursion is free and automatic. The catch is that fear is nearly obsolete in a format full of artifact and black creatures, so Dragon Shadow lives or dies on the commanders that actually want evasion stapled to a self-replacing enchantment, most obviously Phage the Untouchable.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Phage the Untouchable
Phage the Untouchable wins the game on contact and loses it on an blocked swing, so Dragon Shadow's fear aura is a direct path to an unblockable kill — and when Phage inevitably hits the graveyard, Dragon Shadow jumps right back onto the next threat for free.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Dragon Shadow earns its slot only in decks running high-power black threats where fear translates to genuine unblockability — the recursion clause is the real draw, since a one-mana aura that recycles itself every time a fatty dies is a card-neutral investment over a long game. In Pauper it's a legal one-mana aura in a format where fear still blocks most creatures, but evasion-aura strategies are too fragile to see real play. Legacy and Vintage have it legal but ignore it entirely — the effect is too slow and too conditional to compete. Dragon Shadow is a Commander-only card in practice, and even there it belongs in a narrow tier of decks.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.17 bulk tier
At $0.17, Dragon Shadow is deep bulk — the kind of card you pull from a box rather than order. Demand is narrow enough that the price has no upward pressure, and it should stay at this floor indefinitely.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.