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Author of Shadows

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Author of Shadows

Creature — Shade Warlock

When this creature enters, exile all opponents' graveyards. Choose a nonland card exiled this way. You may cast that card for as long as it remains exiled, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast that spell.

$0.52

Commander: LegalModern: Not legal

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Card attributes are distinct from inferred themes. AI themes and predicted tags are suggestions, not rules text; check the card before relying on a surprising classification.

Ability tags

Triggered

Mana costs

× 1

Creature kinds

Shade

Classes and roles

Warlock

Hates tags

Graveyard

Color identity

B

Mana value

Mana value 5

Timing tags

Timing Sorcery

Type tags

Creature

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Balanced: 0.60*text + 0.20*tags + 0.10*color + 0.10*cost. Outputs are unitless rankings, not percentages or probabilities. Most similar shows the highest scores; Typical overlap is nearest the catalog median (0.586); Least similar shows the lowest scores.

Text uses cosine resemblance (−1 to 1) between 384-number embeddings when available, or lexical fallback otherwise. Tags use Jaccard overlap of approved tags and AI themes, excluding predicted tags and separately scored color/cost tags. Color compares W/U/B/R/G identity. Mana cost combines mana-value proximity, 1 / (1 + the difference), with mana-symbol overlap. Tags, color, and cost range from 0 to 1.

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Printings
SetLanguageCollectorReleasedRarityPrice
Magic Online Promosen900662021-05-01rare—
Commander 2021pt352021-04-23rare—
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Commander 2021de352021-04-23rare—
Commander 2021ru352021-04-23rare—
Commander 2021it352021-04-23rare—
Commander 2021en3622021-04-23rare$0.93
Commander 2021en352021-04-23rare$0.52
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