Witch

Witch
Creature Type
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Witch is an obsolete creature type that originally appeared on the card Cuombajj Witches.

Description

Witches are practitioners of witchcraft. They can be male or female and usually possess malignant supernatural powers, often casting curses. They may have the aid of a devil or a familiar.

History

Within the game of Magic: The Gathering, witches have been represented by various classes. The more traditional ugly, old women used the type Hag, but witches could also be a wizard (e.g. Mistmeadow Witch), a spellshaper (e.g. Cackling Witch), a shaman (e.g. Bitterheart Witch), a cleric (e.g. Exava, Rakdos Blood Witch) or a Scarecrow (e.g. Wicker Witch)

With the introduction of the gender neutral subtype warlock, that became the preferred creature class for witches and hags.

Notable witches

• Liliana Vess is sometimes described as witch.

Dominaria

• The Witch Kings of Keld.
• The Skin-Witches of Caligo
• The witch-priests of Yumok

Eldraine

The birth-mother of Rowan and Will Kenrith.

Ravnica

• The blood-witches of the Cult of Rakdos. They are undead.
• The razorwitches of the Cult of Rakdos. Able to conjure double-ended, diamond-shaped, knives out of thin air.

Theros

• The "Sea Witch" met by Dack Fayden. She had powerful water magic and was able to summon a giant kraken to attack him.

Zendikar

• The vampire bloodwitches of Malakir.

Associated cards

• Festering Newt or Bubbling Cauldron, as used by the Bogbrew Witch
• Season of the Witch
• Witchbane Orb
• Witches' Eye
• Witch Hunt and Witch Hunter
• Witch's Familiar
• Witch's Mist
• Witchstalker