Kindly Stranger // Demon-Possessed Witch
Creature — Human // Creature — Human Shaman
Delirium — 
: Transform this creature. Activate only if there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Shadows over Innistrad
- Price
- $0.16
- EDHREC rank
- #24466
Kindly Stranger // Demon-Possessed Witch deals a point of deathtouch damage to a creature at sorcery speed, then transforms into a 3/2 with deathtouch that can sac itself to destroy any creature — conditional on having a non-Human in play, but most creature decks meet that bar easily. The two-card sequence costs three mana and a board presence check; if you clear that hurdle, it's a clean removal spell stapled to a threat.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Kindly Stranger // Demon-Possessed Witch occupies the low-priority removal slot — it trades one-for-one at sorcery speed, which is rarely where you want to be in a four-player game. It finds a real home in tribal decks that run non-Human creatures and want redundant sacrifice-based removal, particularly in black-green Werewolf or aristocrats builds where the Witch's body feeds a sac outlet after the kill. In Modern and Pioneer, the three-mana investment spread across two steps is too slow for the formats' tempo demands, so it sits well outside competitive consideration. Legacy and Vintage have zero interest — neither format tolerates sorcery-speed conditional removal at this mana cost.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.16 bulk tier
At $0.16, Kindly Stranger // Demon-Possessed Witch is deep bulk — grab a copy from a commons box or throw it in a trade binder filler slot. At this price tier there's no financial case to make; you run it because the effect fits your deck, not because it's going anywhere in value.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.