
Shadowheart, Dark Justiciar
Legendary Creature — Human Elf Cleric
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, Sacrifice another creature: Draw X cards, where X is that creature's power.
Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)
"Shar's will shall be done. As sure as night will fall."
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Commander bracket
Derived from card traits, not a ruling — bracket rules turn on how a deck intends to use a card. Bracket rules
EDHREC
Combos 1
Commander recommendations
Top synergy 50
Played far more in this commander's decks than elsewhere.
- Black Market
- Viconia, Drow Apostate
- Victimize
- Taborax, Hope's Demise
- Haunted One
- Doomed Necromancer
- Shadow-Rite Priest
- Agent of the Iron Throne
- Priest of Forgotten Gods
- Bastion of Remembrance
- Deathgreeter
- Tragic Slip
- Liliana, Heretical Healer
- Grim Haruspex
- Disciple of Bolas
- Syr Konrad, the Grim
- Skirsdag High Priest
- Skemfar Shadowsage
- Zulaport Cutthroat
- Deadly Dispute
- Village Rites
- Pitiless Plunderer
- Unearth
- Ghoulcaller Gisa
- Grave Pact
- Reliquary Tower
- Beseech the Queen
- Ayara, First of Locthwain
- Patriar's Seal
- Oversold Cemetery
- Thought Vessel
- Arnyn, Deathbloom Botanist
- Priest of Gix
- Reassembling Skeleton
- Drivnod, Carnage Dominus
- Blood Artist
- Bonecaller Cleric
- Whisper, Blood Liturgist
- Hunted Bonebrute
- Raise the Draugr
- Plaguecrafter
- Witch's Cottage
- Solemn Simulacrum
- Murder
- Morbid Opportunist
- Mortuary Mire
- Xathrid Necromancer
- Fain, the Broker
- Psychosis Crawler
- Bontu's Monument
Most included 50
Highest share of decks running them, distinctive or not.
- Swamp
- Sol Ring
- Victimize
- Black Market
- Dark Ritual
- Arcane Signet
- Gray Merchant of Asphodel
- Feed the Swarm
- Deadly Dispute
- Jet Medallion
- Bojuka Bog
- Cabal Coffers
- Reliquary Tower
- Reanimate
- Tragic Slip
- Bastion of Remembrance
- Blood Artist
- Village Rites
- Zulaport Cutthroat
- Viconia, Drow Apostate
- Syr Konrad, the Grim
- Ayara, First of Locthwain
- Thought Vessel
- Priest of Forgotten Gods
- Pitiless Plunderer
- Cabal Stronghold
- Taborax, Hope's Demise
- Grave Pact
- Bontu's Monument
- Haunted One
- Crypt Ghast
- Witch's Cottage
- Doomed Necromancer
- Swiftfoot Boots
- Morbid Opportunist
- Agent of the Iron Throne
- Shadow-Rite Priest
- Sign in Blood
- Reassembling Skeleton
- Grim Haruspex
- Solemn Simulacrum
- Plaguecrafter
- Defile
- Mind Stone
- Deathgreeter
- Exsanguinate
- Toxic Deluge
- Disciple of Bolas
- Unearth
- Liliana, Heretical Healer
Format legality
Rulings
- 2022-06-10
An effect that checks whether you control your commander is satisfied if you control one or both of your two commanders.
- 2022-06-10
Both commanders start in the command zone, and the remaining 98 cards (or 58 cards in a Commander Draft game) of your deck are shuffled to become your library.
- 2022-06-10
Choose a Background is a variant of the partner ability. You may have two commanders if one of them is a legendary creature with the choose a background ability and the other is a legendary Background enchantment. Backgrounds and cards with choose a Background do not interact with cards which have any other partner ability.
- 2022-06-10
If a card refers to a commander creature you own, a Background won't usually be counted or included for that effect. If another spell or ability causes your Background to become a creature, however, it will be included. Any effect that refers to your commander or a commander you own or control without specifying creature will apply to a Background that is your commander, as appropriate.
- 2022-06-10
If something refers to your commander while you have two commanders, it refers to one of them of your choice. If you are instructed to perform an action on your commander (e.g. put it from the command zone into your hand due to Command Beacon), you choose one of your commanders at the time the effect happens.
- 2022-06-10
If you control a Background that grants an ability to commander creatures you own, and you own more than one commander creature, each of them will have that ability.
- 2022-06-10
If your Commander deck has two commanders, you can include only cards whose own color identities are also found in your commanders’ combined color identities.
- 2022-06-10
If your commander loses the choose a Background ability or stops being a Background during the game, as appropriate, it is still your commander.
- 2022-06-10
Once the game begins, your two commanders are tracked separately. If you cast one, you won’t have to pay an additional
the first time you cast the other. A player loses the game after having been dealt 21 combat damage from any one of them, not from both of them combined (although your Background won’t usually be a creature anyway).
- 2022-06-10
You can choose two commanders that are the same color or colors.