Author of Shadows
66Strong in 2HGCreature — Shade Warlock
Commander 2021
2HG Rating
66/100
Gains value in 2HG: board sweeper.
- +16Board sweeper
A wrath answers two developed boards at once. Sweepers are premium removal in 2HG.
Ratings start at a neutral 50 and are adjusted by rules derived from 2HG's structure — shared 60 life, shared turns, two opponents. They'll be recalibrated against real play rates once teams start submitting decklists.
Oracle text
When this creature enters, exile all opponents' graveyards. Choose a nonland card exiled this way. You may cast that card for as long as it remains exiled, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast that spell.
Legality
Plays well beside it
Shares the "board sweeper" axis — good candidates for your teammate's deck.
Suggestions are characteristic-based for now. Once teams submit pairings, this becomes a real co-occurrence score: played in X% of teams whose partner deck runs Author of Shadows.