Clockwork Avian
Fourth Edition 306 • rare
- Set
- Fourth Edition
- Collector number
- 306
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana cost
- 5 generic mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- Colorless
- Artist
- Randy Asplund-Faith
- Market price
- $0.52
What it does
Flying
This creature enters with four +1/+0 counters on it.
At end of combat, if this creature attacked or blocked this combat, remove a +1/+0 counter from it.
X mana, tap: Put up to X +1/+0 counters on this creature. This ability can't cause the total number of +1/+0 counters on this creature to be greater than four. Activate only during your upkeep.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernNot legal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
The Clockwork Avian made its debut in the Fourth Edition of Magic: The Gathering, released in 1995 as the first core set designed to consolidate and reprint cards from the game's initial expansions. It serves as a mechanical artifact creature, drawing on the steampunk and high-fantasy aesthetic that defined early creature design. The card was intended to explore the 'modular' or self-depleting mechanic, where a creature's power and toughness decrease as it attacks, reflecting a clockwork mechanism winding down.
The illustration was provided by Amy Weber, one of the game's original artists, who imbued the avian with an intricate, brass-and-gear aesthetic typical of the mid-90s era of the game. While the card is often viewed as a niche piece of utility today, its inclusion in Fourth Edition helped cement the mechanical identity of artifact creatures in the early competitive environment, where such creatures provided color-neutral board presence for any deck archetype.
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