---
name: "Frozen Shade"
mana_cost: "{2}{B}"
cmc: 3
type_line: "Creature — Shade"
colors: ["B"]
color_identity: ["B"]
keywords: []
set: "LEA"
set_name: "Limited Edition Alpha"
collector_number: "109"
rarity: "common"
artist: "Douglas Shuler"
oracle_id: "f75f9006-217d-4ec8-9c35-ceefe1c5ae4e"
canonical_url: "https://avascry.com/printing/frozen-shade-lea"
legalities:
  commander: "legal"
  standard: "not_legal"
  modern: "not_legal"
  pioneer: "not_legal"
  legacy: "legal"
  vintage: "legal"
  pauper: "legal"
  penny: "not_legal"
---

# Frozen Shade
- **Mana Cost:** `{2}{B}` (CMC: 3)
- **Type:** Creature — Shade
- **Power/Toughness:** 0/1

## Oracle Text
{B}: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

> *"There are some qualities—some incorporate things,/ That have a double life, which thus is made/ A type of twin entity which springs/ From matter and light, evinced in solid and shade."
—Edgar Allan Poe, "Silence"*

## Top 4096-Dim Neural Synergies
1. [Looming Shade](/printing/looming-shade-7ed.md) — Creature — Shade
2. [Veiled Shade](/printing/veiled-shade-grn.md) — Creature — Shade
3. [Hoar Shade](/printing/hoar-shade-ice.md) — Creature — Shade
4. [Dread Shade](/printing/dread-shade-dom.md) — Creature — Shade
5. [Nakaya Shade](/printing/nakaya-shade-pcy.md) — Creature — Shade
6. [Zof Shade](/printing/zof-shade-m15.md) — Creature — Shade

## Printing Details
- **Set:** Limited Edition Alpha (LEA) #109
- **Rarity:** Common
- **Artist:** Douglas Shuler
- **Total Printings:** 37 across all historical editions

## Format Legalities
Commander: `legal` | Standard: `not_legal` | Modern: `not_legal` | Pioneer: `not_legal` | Legacy: `legal` | Vintage: `legal` | Pauper: `legal` | Penny: `not_legal`