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Shadowborn Apostle
Oracle Text
A deck can have any number of cards named Shadowborn Apostle.
{B}, Sacrifice six creatures named Shadowborn Apostle: Search your library for a Demon creature card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
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Character Background
Shadowborn Apostle is one of Magic’s clearest combo enablers, turning a humble 1/1 Cleric into the engine of a dedicated Demon-reanimation plan. Its real strength is that a deck may run any number of copies, so every draw step can keep advancing the same game plan rather than diluting it with one-off pieces. In practice, this supports combo far more than tempo or aggro: you want to flood the board with Apostles, then convert six of them into a huge Demon that often ends games or stabilizes immediately. The best deckbuilding tip is to pair it with sacrifice and recursion outlets—cards that let you reuse Apostles, protect your board from sweepers, or turn spare bodies into value before the big activation. The Secret Lair presentation fits the card’s flavor well: a congregation of the disposable, unified by dark faith, feeding something far larger than themselves.
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Character Background
Shadowborn Apostle is one of Magic’s clearest combo enablers, turning a humble 1/1 Cleric into the engine of a dedicated Demon-reanimation plan. Its real strength is that a deck may run any number of copies, so every draw step can keep advancing the same game plan rather than diluting it with one-off pieces. In practice, this supports combo far more than tempo or aggro: you want to flood the board with Apostles, then convert six of them into a huge Demon that often ends games or stabilizes immediately. The best deckbuilding tip is to pair it with sacrifice and recursion outlets—cards that let you reuse Apostles, protect your board from sweepers, or turn spare bodies into value before the big activation. The Secret Lair presentation fits the card’s flavor well: a congregation of the disposable, unified by dark faith, feeding something far larger than themselves.
Generated using gpt-5.4-mini · Updated at 2026-08-21 14:10:48 UTC