Witch

Witch is an obsolete creature type that originally appeared on the card .
==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. Witches are considered vile and cruel, taking great joy in their evil deeds.
===History===
Within the game of Magic: The Gathering, witches have been represented by various creature classes. The more supernaturally ugly, old women used the type Hag, but humanoid witches could also be a Wizard (e.g. <c>Mistmeadow Witch</c>), a spellshaper (e.g. <c>Cackling Witch</c>), a Shaman (e.g. <c>Bitterheart Witch</c>), a Cleric (e.g. <c>Exava, Rakdos Blood Witch</c>) or a Scarecrow (e.g. <c>Wicker Witch</c>)
As witch is a real world religious identifier, R&D chose to avoid it as a creature type. With the introduction of the gender neutral subtype Warlock, that became the preferred creature class for witches.
==Notable witches==
===Alara===
The Split-Eye Coven is a group of Grixis witch-prophets. They serve Nicol Bolas by spreading rumors of Grixis's future overflowing with the life energy known as vis, so as to motivate necromancers and lich lords to march on the other shards after the Conflux.
===Dominaria===
*Quetzan of Tyree
*The Witch Kings of Keld.
*The Skin-Witches of Caligo
*The Witch-Priests of Yumok
===Eldraine===
*Agatha
*Eriette
*Hylda
*The birth mother of Rowan and Will Kenrith.
===Innistrad===
*Liliana Vess is sometimes described as a witch.
*Hedgewitches, a smattering of covens and druidic cults conducted folk magics across the provinces. 
**Deidamia
**Katilda and the Dawnhart Coven.
===Muraganda===
*The Scar witches
===Rabiah===
*Cuombajj witches
===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.Django Wexler (July 3, 2019), The Gathering Storm, Chapter Five.
===Theros===
*The "Sea Witch" met by Dack Fayden. She had powerful water magic and was able to summon a giant kraken to attack him.Magic: The Gathering - Theros Issue #2
===Zendikar===
*The vampire bloodwitches of Malakir.
==Gallery==
File:WitchConcept.png|Eldraine Witch concept.
==Associated cards==
and all cards with the Coven mechanic.
==References==
Category:Classes