Shadowblood Egg

Artifact

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add {B}{R}. Draw a card.

CMC
1
Mana cost
{1}
Color identity
BR
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Odyssey
Price
$0.21
EDHREC rank
#21947
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Shadowblood Egg card art
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

FormatVerdict
commander
legacy
modern
pioneer
standard
vintage
pauper
oathbreaker

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