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Shade's Form

Enchantment — Aura

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has "{B}: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn."
When enchanted creature dies, return that card to the battlefield under your control.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{1}{B}{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
common
Set
Torment
Price
$0.35
EDHREC rank
#15094
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Shade's Form card art
Shade's Form staples a Shade activation and a graveyard recursion trigger onto any creature — most explosively Sun Titan, which turns every death into a free permanent and resets the enchantment itself. The cost is three mana and an enchantment slot that does nothing until the creature it's on either attacks or dies.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon

Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon

11.6% of decks · synergy 0.11

Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon already threatens lethal poison in one or two swings, and Shade's Form gives it a mana sink to punch through any blocker while ensuring that if a removal spell connects, Skithiryx comes straight back — keeping the infect clock alive even through board wipes.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern not legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Shade's Form earns its keep, specifically on recursive threats like Sun Titan that reward dying repeatedly. In Pauper it's technically legal but competes in a format where three-mana enchantments need immediate impact, and this one doesn't deliver on that axis. Legacy and Vintage have the card legal on paper but no realistic shell wants it — the effect is too slow and too conditional against those fields. Shade's Form is a Commander-or-bust card, full stop.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.35 bulk tier

At $0.35, Shade's Form is deep bulk — pick it up without thinking about the price. It won't appreciate meaningfully, but it doesn't need to: this is a role-player you grab for a specific deck, not a spec.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.