Hoar Shade
Creature — Shade
: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Ice Age
- Price
- $0.11
- EDHREC rank
- #29096
Hoar Shade is a 1/2 for three mana that can pump itself for
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, Hoar Shade has no meaningful role — a 1/2 that grows for mana is outclassed by nearly every black three-drop with actual card text. Pauper is the one format where Hoar Shade can show up in a slow mono-black shell, where repeated pump activations can threaten a stalled board and the common-only card pool forgives a modest body. Legacy and Vintage are legal in name only; Hoar Shade will never see play in either. The honest assessment is that this is a Limited card from an older era, and even there it was nothing special.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.11 bulk tier
At $0.11, Hoar Shade sits firmly in bulk territory and will stay there — there is no shell that wants it enough to generate demand. Pick it up if you need the physical card for a cube or a nostalgia build, but expect zero price movement in either direction.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.