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Smoke Shroud

Enchantment — Aura

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has flying.
When a Ninja you control enters, you may return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield attached to that creature.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{1}{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
common
Set
Foundations Jumpstart
Price
$0.26
EDHREC rank
#6751
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Smoke Shroud card art
Smoke Shroud turns any ninjutsu-enabled unblocked attacker into a permanently evasive threat — one blue mana at instant speed, and the enchanted creature keeps flying and unblockable even after Smoke Shroud moves on via bounce loops. Dawn Evangel can recur it repeatedly, and Splinter, Radical Rat makes the unblockable clause redundant in the best possible way, turning this into pure flying insurance for a single mana.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Splinter, Radical Rat

Splinter, Radical Rat

38.2% of decks · synergy 0.38

Splinter, Radical Rat already makes enchanted creatures unblockable, so Smoke Shroud's real contribution here is the flying — relevant against other evasion-based boards — plus it's a cheap enchantment that feeds Splinter's enchantment-matters synergies and bounce loops.

02
Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow

Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow

37.9% of decks · synergy 0.34

Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow demands unblocked attackers to trigger ninjutsu, and Smoke Shroud delivers both flying and unblockable on one card for a single blue mana, making it one of the most efficient enablers in the deck.

03
Satoru, the Infiltrator

Satoru, the Infiltrator

24.1% of decks · synergy 0.20

Satoru, the Infiltrator rewards you for connecting with creatures, and Smoke Shroud's double evasion — flying plus unblockable — ensures those connections happen consistently without spending extra mana on multiple aura slots.

04
Satoru Umezawa

Satoru Umezawa

15.7% of decks · synergy 0.11

Satoru Umezawa's ninjutsu-granting ability needs creatures that can slip through defenses uncontested, and Smoke Shroud is one of the cheapest ways to guarantee that on any creature already in play.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is where Smoke Shroud earns its keep — ninjutsu decks are the dominant home, and the combination of flying and unblockable on a one-mana aura is genuinely hard to replace at that cost. In Pauper it's legal and occasionally appears in tempo or aura-based aggressive shells, though the format's low-to-the-ground threats rarely need this much evasion stacked on one card. Legacy and Vintage are non-factors; Smoke Shroud's effect isn't powerful enough to compete in those formats outside of highly dedicated ninjutsu builds, which don't exist at that level. The card's power ceiling is firmly in Commander, where slow board states make evasion more meaningful and bounce loops make the aura reusable.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.26 bulk tier

At $0.26, Smoke Shroud is deep bulk — a card you pick up without thinking twice for any ninjutsu build. Bulk commons with a clear mechanical home tend to hold this floor stably, so there's no urgency to buy in quantity, but no reason to hesitate either.

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