Cavern Harpy
Planeshift 97 • common
- Set
- Planeshift
- Collector number
- 97
- Rarity
- Common
- Mana cost
- blue mana black mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- Black · Blue
- Artist
- Daren Bader
- Market price
- $0.28
What it does
Flying
When this creature enters, return a blue or black creature you control to its owner's hand.
Pay 1 life: Return this creature to its owner's hand.
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
Cavern Harpy was released in the 2001 Magic: The Gathering set Planeshift, which served as the second installment of the Invasion block. Designed to emphasize the multicolored theme of the block, the card reflects the set's focus on complex interactions between different color alignments. Its mechanics, which involve returning a creature to your hand as a cost, were intended to balance its low casting cost and flying ability while providing strategic utility for entering-the-battlefield effects.
The card’s illustration was created by artist Arnie Swekel, who contributed extensively to the visual identity of the game during this era. Swekel’s design captures the grotesque and avian nature of the harpy within the shifting, unstable environments of the plane of Rath. Upon its release, the card was received as a nuanced utility piece that saw play in various constructed formats, particularly for its ability to reuse powerful creature abilities at the cost of one life.
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