Fiend of the Shadows
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
Flying
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player exiles a card from their hand. You may play that card for as long as it remains exiled.
Sacrifice a Human: Regenerate this creature.
Rulings
4 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2011-01-22
Playing a card exiled with Fiend of the Shadows follows all the normal rules for playing that card. You must pay its costs, and you must follow all timing restrictions, for example.
- 2011-01-22
As long as the card remains exiled, you may still play it, even if Fiend of the Shadows leaves the battlefield or changes controllers.
- 2011-01-22
If this creature deals combat damage to multiple players simultaneously, perhaps because some combat damage was redirected, its ability will trigger for each of those players.
- 2011-01-22
You may only play the card, meaning play it as a land or cast it as a spell. It's not in your hand. You can't discard it, activate its cycling abilities, and so on.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Fiend of the Shadows, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prosper, Tome-Bound | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Rakdos 1 deck
Fiend of the Shadows price history
The Forgotten Realms Commander #99 printing, as Scryfall reports the TCGplayer market. Updated nightly. Click any version below to chart its price.
Every recorded price change
| Date | Non-foil |
|---|---|
| Oct 27, 2026 | $0.31 |
| Sep 28, 2026 | $0.31 |
A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.
Every version of Fiend of the Shadows
2 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly. A printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall publishes none for some of them. Click a card's art to chart that version's price above.
- Normal
- $0.31
- Normal
- $0.22
- Foil
- $0.44
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Fiend of the Shadows. It runs a name search across every version, which covers the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.
Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only. No individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.
