Shadows over Innistrad Removal
Here is a list of all the removal in Shadows over Innistrad. It covers permanent creature removal, temporary creature removal (e.g. bounce, tap, and falter effects), non-creature removal, and off-the-battlefield removal (e.g. hand, stack, and graveyard). The column labeled 'T' for toughness (to the right of the permanent creature removal column) indicates how big a creature the removal spell can handle. If there is no number in that column, the removal is independent of the creature's toughness. Conditional removal is indicated after the card name.
- Italics indicates that the card is a permanent that has to remain in play for the effect to continue.
- Bold indicates a reusable or ongoing effect.
- Yellow highlight indicates that multiple targets are affected.
- Red highlight indicates mass removal that you may be able to avoid overextending into.
- Within each color/rarity, cards are ordered by how tough a creature they can kill, then by converted mana cost.
Unlike the table of instant-speed tricks, this list does not try to provide an abbreviated description of the effect. Here's how to interpret those effects:
- Abbreviations used: A (artifact), attkr (attacker), blkr (blocker), bounce (return to owner's hand), C (creature), CMC (converted mana cost), counter when used as a verb (counter a spell), discard X (discard X cards), dmg (damage), E (enchantment), EOT (end of turn), extract (search specified zones for any number of copies of a card, exile those cards, then that player shuffles his or her library), flyer (creature with flying), freeze X (tap X and it doesn't untap on controller's next turn), GY (graveyard), I (instant), L (land), mill X (put X cards from library into graveyard), opp (opponent), P (player or power, depending on context), PW (planeswalker), regen (regenerate), S (sorcery), sac (sacrifice), T (toughness), your X (X you control).
- Effects (+X/+Y, -X/-Y, hexproof, etc.) last until end of turn unless specified otherwise.
- Effects only target creatures unless otherwise specified, e.g., X dmg without qualifiers means the effect does X damage to any creature. If the effect also targets players, that won't be mentioned here.
| Shadows over Innistrad | Permanent Creature Removal / Conditional Toughness | Temporary Creature Removal | Non-Creature Removal | Not on Battlefield | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Colorless | common | 1+3+{T}: Explosive Apparatus | 2 | |||
| White | common | 1W: Puncturing Light (attkr/blkr with P <= 3) | W+{T}+discard 1: Stern Constable (tap) | 2W+sac permanent: Angelic Purge (exile A/E) | ||
| 2W+sac permanent: Angelic Purge (exile) | 1W: Expose Evil (tap 0-2) | |||||
| uncommon | 1W+1R: Nahiri's Machinations (blkr) | 1 | W: Topplegeist (tap; with Delirium, on each opp's upkeep, tap their C) | 1W: Not Forgotten (card in GY) | ||
| 2W: Bound by Moonsilver (can't attack, block, or transform) | ||||||
| 3W: Silverstrike (attkr) | ||||||
| 3W+equip+your end step: Avacynian Missionaries (exile) | ||||||
| 4W: Humble the Brute (P >= 4) | ||||||
| rare | 1W: Declaration in Stone (exile C and all Cs with that name controlled by that P) | |||||
| 6WW+Delirium+deals dmg: Angel of Deliverance (exile) | ||||||
| mythic | 3WW+non-Angel you control dies+next upkeep: Archangel Avacyn (3 dmg to each other C) | 3 | ||||
| 4WW: Descend upon the Sinful (exile all Cs) | ||||||
| Blue | common | 3U: Sleep Paralysis (tap C, it doesn't untap during its controller's untap step) | (U)/1U: Just the Wind (bounce) | 4U: Gone Missing (bounce permanent to library) | 2U: Deny Existence (counter C & exile it) | |
| 1U: Press for Answers (freeze) | ||||||
| 2U: Stitched Mangler (freeze) | ||||||
| 4U: Gone Missing (bounce to library) | ||||||
| uncommon | 1U: Compelling Deterrence (bounce) | 1U: Compelling Deterrence (bounce nonland) | U: Invasive Surgery (counter S; with Delirium, also extract that spell from its controller's GY, hand, and library) | |||
| 1U+you control a Zombie: Compelling Deterrence (opp discards 1) | ||||||
| 1UU/(3U): Broken Concentration (counter) | ||||||
| rare | 2UU/(XUU): Welcome to the Fold (gain control of T <= 2 or T <= X) | 2/X | 1U+cast 4 I/S: Thing in the Ice (bounce all non-Horrors) | 3UU: Confirm Suspicions (counter) | ||
| 3U: Engulf the Shore (bounce all T <= #Islands you control) | ||||||
| mythic | 3UU-2 loyalty: Jace, Unraveler of Secrets (bounce) | 3UU-8 loyalty: Jace, Unraveler of Secrets (emblem with "counter opps' first spell each turn") | ||||
| Black | common | B: Dead Weight | 2 | B: Shamble Back (C in GY) | ||
| 4B: Throttle | 4 | 1B+1B+sac: Vessel of Malignity (opp exiles 2 cards from hand) | ||||
| 1B/(1B): Murderous Compulsion (tapped) | ||||||
| uncommon | 2B: Tooth Collector (-1/-1; with Delirium, on each opp's upkeep, -1/-1 to their C) | 1 | 2B: Pick the Brain (exile nonland from opp's hand; with Delirium, also extract that card from its controller's GY, hand, and library) | |||
| 2BB: Biting Rain (all Cs get -2/-2) | 2 | 3B: Creeping Dread (each P discards 1 at the beginning of your upkeep) | ||||
| B+B+1 life+mill 1+discard 1: Sinister Concoction | ||||||
| 2B+Delirium+2B: Kindly Stranger | ||||||
| rare | 2B: To the Slaughter (sac C/PW; with Delirium, sac C+PW instead) | |||||
| Red | common | R: Dual Shot (1 dmg to 0-2 Cs) | 1 | 1R: Magmatic Chasm (non-flyers can't block) | 3R: Structural Distortion (exile A/L) | |
| (R)/1RR: Fiery Temper | 3 | 3R: Voldaren Duelist (C can't block) | ||||
| 4R: Reduce to Ashes (C is exiled if it would die) | 5 | |||||
| uncommon | 2R: Geistblast | 2 | 3R/(3R): Malevolent Whispers (untap & gain control of C until EOT; it gets +2/+0 & haste) | |||
| 3R: Dance with Devils (two 1/1 Devils with "when ~ dies, deal 1 dmg") | 2 | |||||
| R+(5/discard 1): Lightning Axe | 5 | |||||
| 3RR: Dissension in the Ranks (blkr fights another blkr) | ||||||
| rare | 4RR: Devil's Playground (four 1/1 Devils with "when ~ dies, deal 1 dmg") | 4 | ||||
| 1R/(XR): Avacyn's Judgment (2/X dmg divided as you choose among Cs/Ps) | 2/X | |||||
| XR: Burn from Within (X dmg, C loses indestructible and is exiled if it would die) | X | |||||
| mythic | 3RR+attack+1R+discard 1: Wolf of Devil's Breach (dmg = discarded card's CMC) | 3RR+attack+1R+discard 1: Wolf of Devil's Breach (dmg to PW = discarded card's CMC) | ||||
| Green | common | 1G: Rabid Bite (your C deals P to opp's C) | P | 2G: Root Out (A/E) | ||
| 1G: Clip Wings (each opp sacs a flyer) | ||||||
| uncommon | 1G: Moonlight Hunt (choose opp's C; your Wolves/Werewolves each deal P dmg to it) | |||||
| Multicolor | rare | 1WB: Anguished Unmaking (exile) | 1WB: Anguished Unmaking (exile nonland) | |||
| mythic | 2RG+0 loyalty-1 loyalty: Arlinn Kord | 3 | 2RW-2 loyalty: Nahiri, the Harbinger (exile E or tapped A) | |||
| 4WB-X loyalty: Sorin, Grim Nemesis | X | |||||
| 2RW-2 loyalty: Nahiri, the Harbinger (exile tapped C) | ||||||
| 2RG+0 loyalty-6 loyalty: Arlinn Kord (your Cs have haste and "{T}: deal P dmg" | ||||||
