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Sickening Shoal

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Sickening Shoal

Instant — Arcane

You may a black card with mana value X from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn.

$9.47

Commander: LegalModern: Legal

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Tags and classifications

Card attributes are distinct from extracted ability facts and inferred themes. AI themes and predicted tags are suggestions, not rules text.

Mana costs

× 2

Color identity

B

Mana value

Mana value 2

Timing tags

Timing Instant

Type tags

Instant

Predicted tags are currently unavailable.

Ability classification

Published revision
482a4a8d-910a-4262-8142-5f79ac2d4159
Catalog cards
34,605
Classified
34,605
Complete
1,684
Partial
31,626
Unsupported
1,295

unsupported Extraction abilities-3

Incomplete card classification: unmodeled effect: You may exile a black card with mana value X from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.; unmodeled effect: Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn.

Ability 1

spellunsupported

You may exile a black card with mana value X from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.

Active zone
stack
Trigger
Unavailable
Cost
No recorded activation cost.
Requirements
All of: Unsupported condition: unmodeled effect: You may exile a black card with mana value X from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Source span
0–99

Functional categories

cadence.one-shotdelivery.spell

Effects

No effect records were extracted.

Incomplete: unmodeled effect: You may exile a black card with mana value X from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.

Source evidence
Source
oracle
Revision
934cc567b1662935f64d4148dd65c7f3df7f07214d55f7491ff91acd84cfd262
Rule
abilities-3
Confidence
Not calibrated

You may exile a black card with mana value X from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.

Ability 2

spellunsupported

Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn.

Active zone
stack
Trigger
Unavailable
Cost
No recorded activation cost.
Requirements
All of: Unsupported condition: unmodeled effect: Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn.
Source span
100–145

Functional categories

cadence.one-shotdelivery.spell

Effects

No effect records were extracted.

Incomplete: unmodeled effect: Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn.

Source evidence
Source
oracle
Revision
934cc567b1662935f64d4148dd65c7f3df7f07214d55f7491ff91acd84cfd262
Rule
abilities-3
Confidence
Not calibrated

Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn.

Ability 3

castunsupported

Cast Sickening Shoal

Active zone
hand
Trigger
Unavailable
Cost
Mana {X}{B}{B}
Requirements
All of: timing: instant; Unsupported condition: unmodeled mana payment {X}{B}{B}
Source span
0–0

No functional category evidence is published for this ability.

Effects

cast · immediate

No additional explicit requirement.

  • requires mana · self B · amount 2
    action kind: noncreature_spell
  • requires mana · self X
    All of: action kind: noncreature_spell; Unsupported condition: unmodeled mana payment {X}
  • produces noncreature_cast · self spell · amount 1 · hand → stack
    No additional explicit requirement.

Incomplete: unmodeled mana payment {X}{B}{B}

Source evidence
Source
scryfall
Revision
934cc567b1662935f64d4148dd65c7f3df7f07214d55f7491ff91acd84cfd262
Rule
card-type-cast-event
Confidence
Not calibrated

Instant — Arcane

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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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482a4a8d-910a-4262-8142-5f79ac2d4159
Catalog cards
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Complete
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Scoring revision: relationships-3. Loves, hates, neutral, mixed, conditional, and unknown remain distinct results.

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Printings
SetLanguageCollectorReleasedRarityPrice
Betrayers of Kamigawazhs822005-02-04rare—
Betrayers of Kamigawafr822005-02-04rare—
Betrayers of Kamigawait822005-02-04rare—
Betrayers of Kamigawade822005-02-04rare—
Betrayers of Kamigawaja822005-02-04rare—
Betrayers of Kamigawapt822005-02-04rare—
Betrayers of Kamigawaes822005-02-04rare—
Betrayers of Kamigawaen822005-02-04rare$9.47