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Great card. Using it in EDH decks to protect and buff my legend. Or slap it on an opponents creature before destroying it.

shade is form?

One of my most favorite commons of all time. Mono-black is so tempting with cards like this and cabal coffers out there.

A black False Demise with a pumping effect.

The latter is in general also a handy addition, especially when used with creatures having triggered abilities which get mightier with more power or toughness. (Like Needle Specter or Cold-Eyed Selkie)
Yet keep in mind this might also turn out to be disadvantageous if you plan on casting it on a creature of an opponent which is also playing black.

Nontheless this is a very amiable card. Always glad to see something like this taking in a Common slot.

HEY HEY KIDS!
Proto totem armor!
but even better as it abuses come into play abilities.

Is that the 5E Frozen Shade in the background?

A small question about the errata...

"When enchanted creature is put into a graveyard, return that CARD to the battlefield under your control."

Does it mean that, if the creature wasn't a creature to begin with (such as maybe an artifact/enchantment/land before), I still get to gain control of it after it dies?

waitasecond... I can stick it on the other person's creature before blowing said creature up? Sounds like a good time.

Most people seem to be forgetting that you can stick this on an opponent's big fatty and then kill it, gaining that creature yourself. Sure, it will cost you this card and probably another one (doom blade or such) but you can then wail away on your opponent with their own big guy. Fun.

Not many auras are worth the slightest attention, but this one is a forgotten gem.

In multiplayer, it's fun to drop on an opponent's creature. The knowledge that you will eventually steal their creature may unsettle him, but point out that you'll gladly keep his creature alive with your mana if he starts to attack a third player.

Phyrexian Crusader? No?

This card attached to a Sun Titan makes a virtually indestructible creature, vulnerable only to exile removal such as Swords to Plowsahres. It dies, comes back into play, triggers its ability and reattaches the Aura.

@Cyberium: No, since the card clearly says "Enchant Creature". The reason it refers to "that card" is because creatures are only considered creatures when they're on the battlefield. In every other zone, they're a creature card (except for the stack, where they're a creature spell). If the card said to return "that creature" to the battlefield, it would technically fizzle since the card in question isn't actually a creature. A minor point, yes, but that's what the Oracle's for.

Nantuko Shade Totem Armor? AWESOME

QUESTION... If you were to use this on an opponent's Withengar Unbound before killing it, does it come back under your control as Withengar, or Elbrus? Same with lands that are turned into creatures or artifacts under the effect of March of the Machines?

I believe this is the question Cyberium was asking. A creature that was originally something else.

@DaaNz - Nope...the form of a shade. Possessive, not contraction.

@night8883 - Actually Frozen Shade totem armor.

@scarecrowk - I believe that you'd get the card back as the original form (Elbrus in your example), since that's the way it'd sit in the graveyard, even if the card couldn't normally be enchanted by this.

Totem armor much?

@WhereDidItGo: Actually, Cyberium is correct. You might not have realized what he was getting at, though. If you have turned a non-creature permanent into a creature and have enchanted that creature with Shade's Form then, when the creature dies, Shade's Form will trigger and will return that card from the graveyard to the battlefield. The card gets returned to the battlefield even though it stopped being a creature when it entered the graveyard.

Nantuko Shade in a can. Good stuff.

Awesome card, you can make so many shenanigans with this.

I use it in a Gleancrawler Deck which uses Soldevi Adnate and cards like Priest of Gix, Shriekmaw and Dross Golem to sac-ramp into Gleancrawler or another CC6 Fattie.

So Round two you play the Soldevi, round three a Sac-creature and sac it for Mana and can play Gleancrawler to get the creatures back. I also have Grave Pact in the Deck...

And this is where this card comes in handy:
-you either pump one of the many evasion creatures (fear/ trample)
-You enchant Gleancrawler to ensure all your creatures stay on the battlefield
-you play it on enemy creatures and either shriekmaw or grave pact them to death and steal them.

Just fits in perfectly, and is a good outlet for the sacced mana.

Just fyi:
Deck also has Burnt offering, Duress, Deathgreeter, Promise of Power and Profane Command, very cheap deck $$$
If you want to spend some more then use Geralf's Messenger and the sort, it's not yet perfect...