Blind Zealot
New Phyrexia 52 • common
- Set
- New Phyrexia
- Collector number
- 52
- Rarity
- Common
- Mana cost
- 1 generic mana black mana black mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- Black
- Artist
- Jana Schirmer & Johannes Voss
- Market price
- $0.15
What it does
Intimidate (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may sacrifice it. If you do, destroy target creature that player controls.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperLegal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Blind Zealot was released in 2011 as part of the New Phyrexia set, the final installment of the Scars of Mirrodin block for the Magic: The Gathering trading card game. The set chronicles the complete conquest of the plane of Mirrodin by the Phyrexians, a nightmarish, biomechanical faction obsessed with the forced perfection of all living things through 'compleation.' This card represents a corrupted, blinded devotee, serving as a thematic embodiment of the set’s central narrative of loss and transformation.
The artwork was created by the duo Jana Schirmer and Johannes Voss, who were frequent collaborators during this era of Magic illustration. Their design captures the grim aesthetic of the Phyrexians, utilizing muted tones and unsettling, distorted anatomical features to convey a sense of fervent, misguided religious devotion. Within the game, the card is recognized for its function as a low-cost, disposable creature, designed to force a strategic trade-off where the player sacrifices the unit to destroy an opponent’s creature.
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