Shadow Puppeteers
Shadow Puppeteers: Creature - Faerie Wizard, Wilds of Eldraine Commander. MTG card printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {6}{U}
- Mana value
- 7
- Type
- Creature - Faerie Wizard
- Colour identity
- Blue (U)
- Power / toughness
- 4/4
- Rarity
- Rare
- Set
- Wilds of Eldraine Commander (WOC)
- Released
- 2023-09-08
- Collector number
- 12
- Artist
- Cristi Balanescu
- Commander rank
- 6,017 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
- Keywords
- Flying, Ward
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About Shadow Puppeteers
Shadow Puppeteers is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare blue creature from Wilds of Eldraine Commander (WOC), a Commander product released in September 2023. It is collector number 12 in that set, with art by Cristi Balanescu. It costs {6}{U} (six generic and one blue mana) to cast, for a mana value of 7. It is a 4/4 creature. Its colour identity is blue. It is legal in Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander and Oathbreaker. Wilds of Eldraine Commander is its only printing so far. The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $2.37 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-02).
Card text
Flying, ward {2}
When this creature enters, create two 1/1 black Faerie Rogue creature tokens with flying.
Whenever a creature you control with flying attacks, you may have it become a red Dragon with base power and toughness 4/4 in addition to its other colors and types until end of turn.
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $2.37 (as of 2026-11-02).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Shadow Puppeteers by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Legacy | Legal |
|---|---|
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
Other printings of Shadow Puppeteers
The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Wilds of Eldraine Commander (WOC) #48 | Rare | 2023 |
Official rulings
Five official rulings apply to Shadow Puppeteers, newest first.
- If the creature loses flying before Shadow Puppeteers's last ability resolves, the creature will still become a red Dragon with base power and toughness 4/4 in addition to its other colors and types until end of turn. It won't gain flying.
- If the creature stops being a creature before Shadow Puppeteers's last ability resolves, it will become red until end of turn in addition to its other colors. Since it's not a creature, it won't gain the Dragon subtype, and it won't have base power and toughness 4/4.
- Shadow Puppeteers's last ability overwrites any previous effects that set the creature's power and/or toughness to specific values. Any power- or toughness-setting effects that start to apply after Shadow Puppeteers's last ability resolves will overwrite this effect.
- Shadow Puppeteers's last ability doesn't remove any abilities the creature has.
- Effects that modify a creature's power and/or toughness, such as the one created by Squeak By or a +1/+1 counter, will apply to the creature no matter when they started to take effect.
Similar cards
Other creature cards with a blue colour identity, ranked by how often they appear in Commander decks.
In these precons
Shadow Puppeteers is in the decklist of these preconstructed Commander decks.