Faceless Devourer

Mana cost

Mana value3TypeCreature — Nightmare Horror Color identity

Black RarityUncommon SetTime Spiral Remastered (TSR) ArtistChippy Price€0.10 · foil €0.27 · $0.25

About this card

Faceless Devourer is a creature card in Magic: The Gathering with mana value 3 (color identity: black). First printed in Time Spiral (2006); 2 paper printings in total. Role in Commander: removal. Legal in Commander, Modern, Legacy and Vintage. Cheapest printing: €0.10 (Time Spiral Remastered); most expensive: €0.14 (Time Spiral).

Faceless Devourer

Creature — Nightmare Horror

Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)
When this creature enters, exile another target creature with shadow.
When this creature leaves the battlefield, return the exiled card to the battlefield under its owner's control.

2/1

Name in each language

FrançaisDévoreur sans visageEnglishFaceless DevourerEspañolDevorador sin rostroDeutschGesichtsloser VerschlingerItalianoDivoratore Senza VoltoPortuguêsDevorador Sem Rosto日本語顔なしの貪り食い

Shadow Nightmare Horror

Legality

CommanderLegalStandardNot legalPioneerNot legalModernLegalLegacyLegalVintageLegalPauperNot legalBrawlNot legalOathbreakerLegalHistoricNot legalTimelessNot legalPenny DreadfulLegal

Rulings

2021-03-19
If Faceless Devourer leaves the battlefield before its first triggered ability has resolved, its last ability triggers. This ability does nothing when it resolves. Then its first ability resolves and exiles the target creature indefinitely.

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Auras attached to the exiled creature will be put into their owners' graveyards. Equipment attached to the exiled creature will become unattached and remain on the battlefield. Any counters on the exiled creature will cease to exist. Once the exiled creature returns, it's considered a new object with no relation to the object that it was.

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If a token is exiled this way, it will cease to exist and won't return to the battlefield.

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Three Faceless Devourers entering the battlefield at separate times with no other creatures with shadow on the battlefield will result in an infinite loop. The game ends in a draw unless a player somehow interrupts the loop.

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Once a creature has been blocked, that creature remains blocked and will deal and be dealt combat damage even if it gains or loses shadow or if the blocking creature gains or loses shadow.

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If an attacking creature has multiple evasion abilities, such as shadow and flying, a creature can block it only if that creature satisfies all of the appropriate evasion abilities.

2021-03-19
Multiple instances of shadow on the same creature are redundant.