Civilized Scholar // Homicidal Brute
Innistrad 47 • uncommon
- Set
- Innistrad
- Collector number
- 47
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Mana cost
- 2 generic mana blue mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- Red · Blue
- Artist
- Michael C. Hayes
- Market price
- $0.10
What it does
tap: Draw a card, then discard a card. If a creature card is discarded this way, untap this creature, then transform it.
"Me, angry? Of course not. Thanks to my research, I'm above such petty emotions now."
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Civilized Scholar // Homicidal Brute was released in the 2011 Magic: The Gathering set Innistrad, a gothic horror-themed expansion designed to evoke classic monster tropes. The card introduces the double-faced mechanic, which physically transforms the card when specific criteria are met, reflecting the set's central theme of internal duality and the latent darkness within human characters.
The art was created by illustrator Ryan Barger, who sought to capture the sudden, violent transition from a refined Victorian-era intellectual to a feral, monstrous entity. Within the game's mechanics, the card depicts a researcher whose curiosity leads to an irreversible psychological and physical breakdown, a narrative echoed throughout the set's focus on the fragile barrier between civility and madness.
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