Shadow of the Enemy
- Mana cost
- {3}{B}{B}{B}
- Type
- Sorcery
- Set
- The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth #735 (mythic)
- Price
- $62.31 USD
Exile all creature cards from target player's graveyard. You may cast spells from among those cards for as long as they remain exiled, and mana of any type can be spent to cast them.
Shadow of the Enemy has 7 printings, first in The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (2023). EDHREC ranks it #10,453 among Commander cards. It appears most in Sauron, the Dark Lord decks (2,610 on EDHREC). It has 3 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Shadow of the Enemy most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Sauron, the Dark Lord: 2,610 decks
- Saruman of Many Colors: 828 decks
- Lord of the Nazgûl: 762 decks
- Sméagol, Helpful Guide: 734 decks
- Sauron, Lord of the Rings: 333 decks
- Tasha, the Witch Queen: 302 decks
- Gonti, Night Minister: 300 decks
- Witch-king, Sky Scourge: 228 decks
Often played with Shadow of the Enemy
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : Shadow of the Enemy uses a new template indicating that you may spend mana as though it were mana of any type to cast the exiled cards. The six types of mana are white, blue, black, red, green, and colorless.
- : You pay all costs and follow all normal timing rules for spells cast this way.
- : Snow mana is not a type of mana. Shadow of the Enemy won't let you pay a snow cost using mana produced by a nonsnow source.
Printings
- The Hobbit Eternal #190
- The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth #558
- The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth #735
- The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth #735z
- Tales of Middle-earth Promos #107s
- The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth #107
- The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth #424