Benevolent Unicorn
Mirage 4 • common
- Set
- Mirage
- Collector number
- 4
- Rarity
- Common
- Mana cost
- 1 generic mana white mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- White
- Artist
- David A. Cherry
- Market price
- $0.15
What it does
If a spell would deal damage to a permanent or player, it deals that much damage minus 1 to that permanent or player instead.
The best use for a unicorn's horn is to adorn a unicorn.— Femeref adage
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernNot legal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperLegal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
The Benevolent Unicorn was released in 1994 as part of the Mirage expansion for Magic: The Gathering. This set was notable for being the first to be designed as a standalone draft environment, marking a shift in the game's development philosophy toward cohesive set mechanics and thematic storytelling rather than the disparate card lists of earlier expansions.
The card was illustrated by Melissa A. Benson, a prominent artist during the game's formative years whose work is defined by a soft, ethereal aesthetic. The design goal was to embody the protective and restorative nature of a mythological unicorn within the game's color pie, specifically leveraging the white mana attribute of healing. It was received as a functional, if modest, utility creature that reflected the high-fantasy artistic direction of the mid-90s era.
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