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Hoar Shade
Oracle Text
{B}: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
Card Details
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Character Background
Hoar Shade is a classic Ice Age mana sink: a small black creature that turns spare mana into a growing threat, rewarding patient play more than raw aggression. In Limited, it best supports a control or midrange game plan, where you can stabilize early and then convert unused mana each turn into a scalable attacker or blocker. Because its pump ability costs black mana specifically, it pairs well with decks that can reliably produce multiple Swamps and leave mana open at instant speed, letting it threaten combat blowouts while still representing removal or tricks. It also works nicely with cards that care about sacrificing life for tempo or stalling the board, since the Shade can become relevant later without demanding more cards. In lore terms, it fits the icy, endurance-driven feel of the set: not flashy, but relentless, a dim specter that grows stronger the longer the frostbound battle drags on.
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Character Background
Hoar Shade is a classic Ice Age mana sink: a small black creature that turns spare mana into a growing threat, rewarding patient play more than raw aggression. In Limited, it best supports a control or midrange game plan, where you can stabilize early and then convert unused mana each turn into a scalable attacker or blocker. Because its pump ability costs black mana specifically, it pairs well with decks that can reliably produce multiple Swamps and leave mana open at instant speed, letting it threaten combat blowouts while still representing removal or tricks. It also works nicely with cards that care about sacrificing life for tempo or stalling the board, since the Shade can become relevant later without demanding more cards. In lore terms, it fits the icy, endurance-driven feel of the set: not flashy, but relentless, a dim specter that grows stronger the longer the frostbound battle drags on.
Generated using gpt-5.4-mini · Updated at 2026-08-11 02:40:47 UTC