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Grasping Shadows // Shadows' Lair LCI 0108 · uncommon

Grasping Shadows · {3}{B} · Enchantment · Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, it gains deathtouch and lifelink until end of turn. Put a dread counter on this enchantment. Then if there are three or more dread counters on it, transform it.

Grasping Shadows · {3}{B} · Enchantment · Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, it gains deathtouch and lifelink until end of turn. Put a dread counter on this enchantment. Then if there are three or more dread counters on it, transform it.

Shadows' Lair · Land — Cave · (Transforms from Grasping Shadows.) {T}: Add {B}. {B}, {T}, Remove a dread counter from this land: You draw a card and you lose 1 life. · The shadows make no mark upon the flesh. It is the mind they claw and strangle.

Price
from $0.201 printing
Win rate
49.6% GIH 18,396 instances · Premier Draft
Nov 9–Dec 25, 2023 · 17Lands

Game-in-hand win rate, all deck colors. 9,126 wins in 18,396 card-in-hand instances.

18,249 distinct games · 7,339 distinct drafts · games recorded Nov 9–Dec 25, 2023.

17Lands file dated Dec 27, 2023 · 100-instance minimum · 17Lands public data ↗

Draft data

49.6%when drawn (GIH)

−5.7 pp vs 55.3% average · 18,396 instances

Premier Draft · Nov 9–Dec 25, 2023 · average from 823,614 games

Land · compared with other lands below · last seen around pick 5.0 on average (102,746 packs).

36 of 39 land cards.

Taken at pick7.014,048 picks
Makes the deck52.9%14,048 picks with known usage
When played50.5%37,650.3 matchesBenched 54.8%
31,976.7 matches
When drawn49.6%18,396 instances

Pick and maindeck observations: Nov 9–Dec 25, 2023. Played/benched cells use matches when available; the drawn cell uses game instances.

○ Opening hand 46.5% · 7,123 instances
● Drawn later 51.6% · 11,273 instances

In hand 49.6% · 18,396 instances
Unseen in deck 50.9% · 25,388 instances
−1.3 percentage points when drawn

Compared with land cards

Win rate when drawn49.6%18,396 instances36 of 39
Opening hand46.5%7,123 instances38 of 39
Drawn later51.6%11,273 instances34 of 39
In the deck50.4%44,002 instances34 of 39
Without seeing it50.9%25,388 instances29 of 39
Improvement when drawn−1.3 pp18,396 instances / 25,388 instances33 of 39
When benched54.8%31,976.7 matches30 of 39
Makes the deck52.9%14,048 picks with known usage23 of 39
Pick (last seen)5.0102,746 packs21 of 39
Taken at7.014,048 picks21 of 39

Ranks require 100 observations for that metric; comparisons are descriptive, not a pick order. Pick ranks put earlier picks first.

Best decks for it

no-splash decks only · card-level in-hand rates · 100 minimum

Fungal Festering BG52.7%3,261 instancesEchoes of the Dead UB49.4%3,890 instancesGoing Down! BR49.2%2,451 instancesDusk Legion Pilgrimage WB49.1%3,693 instances

Each tick is this card’s all-decks rate (49.6% · 18,396 instances). A high card rate does not prove that splashing it will improve your deck.

Card partners need a verified analysis of this format’s public game file.

17Lands public datasets ↗ · CC BY 4.0 ↗ · Nov 9–Dec 25, 2023

Collect

1 printingScryfall USD, snapshot Oct 25Pack odds →

Pick a printing for its prices and pull odds.

Prices

LCI 0108 · Regular printingListings ↗
FinishFound inPrice
Nonfoildraft · set$0.20
FoilCollector Booster · draft · set$0.30

Foil in a Collector Booster · Modeled · About 1 in 31 packs (3.26%) · 32.8% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Foil in a draft · Modeled · About 1 in 1,104 packs (0.09%) · 3.2% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Nonfoil in a draft · Modeled · About 1 in 22 packs (4.55%) · 81.3% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Foil in a set · Modeled · About 1 in 368 packs (0.27%) · 7.8% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Nonfoil in a set · Modeled · About 1 in 16 packs (6.31%) · 85.8% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

How to pull it

Official rates for the whole category, not this card.

BoosterSlotPer packCategory
Draft BoosterCommon or traditional foil33%Traditional foil of any rarity
Draft BoosterDouble-faced common or uncommon100%Double-faced common or uncommon
Set BoosterUncommons100% per positionUncommons
Set BoosterDouble-faced common or uncommon100%Double-faced common or uncommon
Set BoosterTraditional foil of any rarity100%Traditional foil of any rarity
Set BoosterWildcards100% per positionWildcards
Collector BoosterTraditional foil uncommons100% per positionTraditional foil uncommons

Wizards · Collecting The Lost Caverns of Ixalan ↗ · Oct 29, 2026

Details & sources

Legal in
Standard · Historic · Timeless · Pioneer · Modern · Legacy · Vintage · CommanderLimited eligibility depends on the event and its booster pool.
Illustration
Sam Wolfe Connelly, LCI 108 · Scryfall ↗
More like this
Regular printing printings →
Sources
Wizards · Collecting The Lost Caverns of Ixalan · Oct 29, 2026
Scryfall USD, snapshot Oct 25
Comprehensive Rules ↗