Air Elemental
Ninth Edition 58 • uncommon
- Set
- Ninth Edition
- Collector number
- 58
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Mana cost
- 3 generic mana blue mana blue mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- Blue
- Artist
- Nick Percival
- Market price
- $0.16
What it does
Flying
Pray that it doesn't seek the safety of your lungs.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerLegal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlLegal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Air Elemental has been a foundational creature in Magic: The Gathering since the game's inception in 1993, originally appearing in the Alpha set. As a quintessential blue creature, it was designed to embody the color's alignment with flight, evasiveness, and the element of air, serving as a reliable 'finisher' for control-oriented deck archetypes throughout the game's early years.
This specific iteration from the Ninth Edition core set, released in 2005, features evocative artwork by illustrator Nick Percival. Percival's design leans into a darker, more textural aesthetic, moving away from the more traditional high-fantasy illustrations seen in earlier core sets to provide a grittier, more atmospheric take on the classic elemental form. It remains a notable example of the stylistic shifts that characterized the mid-2000s core set art direction.
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