When Author of Shadows enters the battlefield, 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.

: Cinder Shade gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

, Sacrifice Cinder Shade: It deals damage equal to its power to target creature.

: Regenerate Darkling Stalker.

: Darkling Stalker gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

: Dread Shade gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Flying

: Dungeon Shade gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

: Fetid Horror gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

: Gateway Shade gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Tap an untapped Gate you control: Gateway Shade gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

At the beginning of your end step, if an artifact or creature was put into a graveyard from the battlefield this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on Ichor Shade.

When Liliana's Shade enters the battlefield, you may search your library for a Swamp card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

: Liliana's Shade gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

, Sacrifice a Swamp: Put a +1/+1 counter on Mire Shade. Activate only as a sorcery.

: Nakaya Shade gets +1/+1 until end of turn unless any player pays .

Flying

: Nightwing Shade gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

: Perilous Shadow gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Kicker

Skyclave Shade can't block.

If Skyclave Shade was kicked, it enters the battlefield with two +1/+1 counters on it.

Landfall — Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, if Skyclave Shade is in your graveyard and it's your turn, you may cast it from your graveyard this turn.

Flying

: Tattered Apparition gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

: Undercity Shade gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)

: Whispering Shade gets +1/+1 until end of turn.