Corpulent Corpse
Time Spiral 98 • common
- Set
- Time Spiral
- Collector number
- 98
- Rarity
- Common
- Mana cost
- 5 generic mana black mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- Black
- Artist
- Doug Chaffee
- Market price
- $0.06
What it does
Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
Suspend 5—black mana (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay black mana and exile it with five time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost. It has haste.)
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
Corpulent Corpse was released in 2006 as part of the Time Spiral expansion for Magic: The Gathering. The set was designed to be a love letter to the history of the game, featuring numerous mechanical callbacks and 'timeshifted' reprints of cards from the early years of the franchise. As a common black creature card, it was crafted to provide functional graveyard-interactivity within the Limited environment of the set, emphasizing the theme of decay and resurrection prevalent in Magic’s color philosophy.
The artwork for the card was illustrated by Jim Nelson, a prolific contributor to the game during the mid-2000s. Nelson’s design for the Corpulent Corpse leans into a visceral, gothic aesthetic, using heavy shadows and a desaturated palette to highlight the decomposing nature of the creature. Upon its release, the card was received as a standard utility piece for black-aligned decks, noted by players for its efficiency as a recursive threat rather than for any particular rarity or high-level competitive impact.
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