Desert
Friday Night Magic 2008 8 • rare
- Set
- Friday Night Magic 2008
- Collector number
- 8
- Rarity
- Rare
- Type
- Land
- Colors
- Colorless
- Artist
- Glen Angus
- Finish
- Foil
- Market price
- $3.91
What it does
tap: Add colorless mana.
tap: This land deals 1 damage to target attacking creature. Activate only during the end of combat step.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperLegal
- BrawlLegal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
The Desert card, originally debuting in the Arabian Nights expansion in 1993, saw a resurgence in the 2008 Friday Night Magic (FNM) series. Distributed as a tournament participation prize, this version was designed to celebrate the history of the game by featuring older, utility-focused cards with updated modern borders and premium foil treatments. These monthly promotional cards were intended to incentivize local game store attendance, offering players unique visual variants of staples that had become difficult to acquire in their original printings.
The artwork for this particular printing was executed by Glen Angus, a prolific illustrator known for his dramatic lighting and stylized fantasy aesthetic. Angus sought to capture the desolate, sun-scorched atmosphere of a shifting dune landscape while adhering to the standardized card frame requirements of the era. The piece was well-received by the player base for its crisp, dark-toned interpretation of the classic land, providing a distinct stylistic departure from the more vibrant, painterly illustrations typical of early Magic: The Gathering sets.
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