Shadowblood Egg
Artifact
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. Draw a card.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BR
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Odyssey
- Price
- $0.21
- EDHREC rank
- #21947
Shadowblood Egg cycles itself for one mana and replaces itself with a card draw, but the payoff — adding one mana of any color — only fires when you crack it, making it a one-shot ritual with a cantrip stapled on. It's narrowly playable in five-color or domain shells that need color fixing more than raw card advantage, and a cut in anything that doesn't.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Shadowblood Egg occupies the low end of the mana-rock spectrum — it produces no mana until you crack it, so it never accelerates your first few turns the way a Arcane Signet or Fellwar Stone does. It earns a slot only in decks where hitting a specific off-color pip on a single turn matters more than sustained acceleration. In Legacy and Vintage, it's legal but effectively invisible — formats that operate at that power level have zero interest in a one-shot, one-mana color fixer. Oathbreaker mirrors Commander's logic: if your signature spell demands a color you can't reliably produce, Shadowblood Egg is a cheap patch, but you'd almost always rather fix your mana base instead.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.21 bulk tier
At $0.21, Shadowblood Egg is deep bulk — you're not paying for power, you're paying for a slotting solution when nothing better is available. The price is stable because demand is genuinely low; don't expect movement in either direction.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.