Shadow Alley Denizen card art

Shadow Alley Denizen

Creature — Vampire Rogue MV 1

Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.

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What it does

Whenever another black creature you control enters, target creature gains intimidate until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)

Combos with Shadow Alley Denizen

Lines this card is part of — what it needs alongside it, and what the two of them do. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.

  • Horobi, Death's Wail Overseer of the Damned Infinite
    • Destroy any number of nontoken creatures opponents control whenever a black creature enters the battlefield under your control
    • Destroy any number of nontoken creatures whenever a creature dies
    • Lock
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Horobi, Death's Wail Ogre Slumlord Infinite
    • Lock
    • Destroy any number of nontoken creatures whenever a black creature enters the battlefield under your control
    • Destroy any number of nontoken creatures whenever a creature dies
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →

Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.

Rulings

2 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2013-01-24

    The black creature that entered can be chosen as the target of Shadow Alley Denizen's ability, but it won't be able to attack that turn unless it also has haste.

  • 2013-01-24

    Shadow Alley Denizen can be chosen as the target of its own ability.

Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Shadow Alley Denizen, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 1
Games played 0
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games — not enough to publish a rate yet.
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Most played under

Commander Decks Games Win rate
Edgar Markov 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Mardu 1 deck

Every version of Shadow Alley Denizen

3 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 genuinely publishes none for some of them.

Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Shadow Alley Denizen — a name search across every version, for 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.