By sacrificing your own board with it on the stack, and by pre-emptying your opponents yards with anything from a Soul-Guide Lantern to an Author of Shadows, you can simultaneously wipe the board, get a load of EtBs, and slingshot into the lead
Card alterations become not just visual enhancements but conduits for storytelling, cultural appreciation, and competitive strategy
While its static abilities are fairly impressive on their own stopping all of your green spells from being countered including your Elf creature spells its Allosaurus Shepherds activated ability that truly sets it apart
Unsigned copies average about 30,000 USD , but a signed one in top grade has as seen fetched multiples of that
You now have to choose which copy of the Shadowspear you want to keep
This is not always the case though