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Shadowheart, Dark Justiciar
USD $1.59
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MTGO 2.40 tix

Shadowheart, Dark Justiciar

{3}{B}

Legendary Creature — Human Elf Cleric

{1}{B}, {T}, 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."

3 / 4

Choose a background
Set
Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB #146)
Rarity
Rare
Mana value
4
Released
2022-06-10
Artist
Cristi Balanescu
EDHREC rank
#3,509
Colour identity
{B}
Finishes
Nonfoil, Foil
Served from
Local database

Commander bracket

3 +
Bracket 3 and up — Upgraded
In a two-card combo

Derived from card traits, not a ruling — bracket rules turn on how a deck intends to use a card. Bracket rules

EDHREC

Salt Score 0.18
How much players resent seeing this card. The scale tops out around 3.1.
Can be your commander

Combos 1

Shadowheart, Dark Justiciar+Body of Research
{B}{G}{U}
Infinite card drawInfinite draw triggers

Commander recommendations

Top synergy 50

Played far more in this commander's decks than elsewhere.

  1. Black Market 67 %+47.0 %
  2. Viconia, Drow Apostate 46 %+44.9 %
  3. Victimize 70 %+42.0 %
  4. Taborax, Hope's Demise 41 %+39.6 %
  5. Haunted One 39 %+36.8 %
  6. Doomed Necromancer 38 %+36.4 %
  7. Shadow-Rite Priest 37 %+36.0 %
  8. Agent of the Iron Throne 37 %+33.9 %
  9. Priest of Forgotten Gods 42 %+33.9 %
  10. Bastion of Remembrance 48 %+30.8 %
  11. Deathgreeter 34 %+30.2 %
  12. Tragic Slip 49 %+30.0 %
  13. Liliana, Heretical Healer 30 %+27.2 %
  14. Grim Haruspex 35 %+26.7 %
  15. Disciple of Bolas 31 %+26.2 %
  16. Syr Konrad, the Grim 45 %+24.8 %
  17. Skirsdag High Priest 26 %+24.4 %
  18. Skemfar Shadowsage 25 %+24.3 %
  19. Zulaport Cutthroat 46 %+23.4 %
  20. Deadly Dispute 50 %+22.6 %
  21. Village Rites 48 %+22.4 %
  22. Pitiless Plunderer 42 %+21.6 %
  23. Unearth 30 %+21.5 %
  24. Ghoulcaller Gisa 26 %+21.0 %
  25. Grave Pact 40 %+20.6 %
  26. Reliquary Tower 50 %+20.3 %
  27. Beseech the Queen 26 %+19.7 %
  28. Ayara, First of Locthwain 44 %+19.0 %
  29. Patriar's Seal 22 %+18.9 %
  30. Oversold Cemetery 24 %+18.8 %
  31. Thought Vessel 43 %+18.8 %
  32. Arnyn, Deathbloom Botanist 21 %+18.2 %
  33. Priest of Gix 20 %+17.9 %
  34. Reassembling Skeleton 35 %+17.6 %
  35. Drivnod, Carnage Dominus 24 %+16.9 %
  36. Blood Artist 48 %+16.4 %
  37. Bonecaller Cleric 17 %+16.2 %
  38. Whisper, Blood Liturgist 18 %+16.1 %
  39. Hunted Bonebrute 18 %+16.1 %
  40. Raise the Draugr 17 %+15.9 %
  41. Plaguecrafter 34 %+14.5 %
  42. Witch's Cottage 38 %+14.0 %
  43. Solemn Simulacrum 34 %+13.6 %
  44. Murder 23 %+13.5 %
  45. Morbid Opportunist 38 %+13.4 %
  46. Mortuary Mire 26 %+12.8 %
  47. Xathrid Necromancer 13 %+12.3 %
  48. Fain, the Broker 13 %+11.8 %
  49. Psychosis Crawler 15 %+11.5 %
  50. Bontu's Monument 39 %+11.3 %

Most included 50

Highest share of decks running them, distinctive or not.

  1. Swamp 95 %-0.1 %
  2. Sol Ring 86 %+0.2 %
  3. Victimize 70 %+42.0 %
  4. Black Market 67 %+47.0 %
  5. Dark Ritual 60 %-7.3 %
  6. Arcane Signet 55 %-6.2 %
  7. Gray Merchant of Asphodel 51 %+1.0 %
  8. Feed the Swarm 50 %+0.1 %
  9. Deadly Dispute 50 %+22.6 %
  10. Jet Medallion 50 %-12.5 %
  11. Bojuka Bog 50 %+2.4 %
  12. Cabal Coffers 50 %-5.2 %
  13. Reliquary Tower 50 %+20.3 %
  14. Reanimate 50 %+8.7 %
  15. Tragic Slip 49 %+30.0 %
  16. Bastion of Remembrance 48 %+30.8 %
  17. Blood Artist 48 %+16.4 %
  18. Village Rites 48 %+22.4 %
  19. Zulaport Cutthroat 46 %+23.4 %
  20. Viconia, Drow Apostate 46 %+44.9 %
  21. Syr Konrad, the Grim 45 %+24.8 %
  22. Ayara, First of Locthwain 44 %+19.0 %
  23. Thought Vessel 43 %+18.8 %
  24. Priest of Forgotten Gods 42 %+33.9 %
  25. Pitiless Plunderer 42 %+21.6 %
  26. Cabal Stronghold 41 %+6.8 %
  27. Taborax, Hope's Demise 41 %+39.6 %
  28. Grave Pact 40 %+20.6 %
  29. Bontu's Monument 39 %+11.3 %
  30. Haunted One 39 %+36.8 %
  31. Crypt Ghast 39 %-7.7 %
  32. Witch's Cottage 38 %+14.0 %
  33. Doomed Necromancer 38 %+36.4 %
  34. Swiftfoot Boots 38 %+6.1 %
  35. Morbid Opportunist 38 %+13.4 %
  36. Agent of the Iron Throne 37 %+33.9 %
  37. Shadow-Rite Priest 37 %+36.0 %
  38. Sign in Blood 36 %+1.1 %
  39. Reassembling Skeleton 35 %+17.6 %
  40. Grim Haruspex 35 %+26.7 %
  41. Solemn Simulacrum 34 %+13.6 %
  42. Plaguecrafter 34 %+14.5 %
  43. Defile 34 %-1.7 %
  44. Mind Stone 34 %+5.9 %
  45. Deathgreeter 34 %+30.2 %
  46. Exsanguinate 32 %+7.2 %
  47. Toxic Deluge 32 %-4.9 %
  48. Disciple of Bolas 31 %+26.2 %
  49. Unearth 30 %+21.5 %
  50. Liliana, Heretical Healer 30 %+27.2 %

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 {2} 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.

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