Dingus Egg
Eighth Edition 297★ • rare
- Set
- Eighth Edition
- Collector number
- 297★
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana cost
- 4 generic mana
- Type
- Artifact
- Colors
- Colorless
- Artist
- Randy Gallegos
- Finish
- Foil
What it does
Whenever a land is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, this artifact deals 2 damage to that land's controller.
Legend has it that the world was hatched from a dingus egg.
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
The Dingus Egg debuted in the Alpha set of Magic: The Gathering in 1993, designed by Richard Garfield as a punishing artifact to discourage the destruction of lands, which were the foundation of the game's economy. Its name and peculiar appearance reflect the whimsical and often eccentric art direction of the game’s earliest days, a period when fantasy tropes were frequently blended with idiosyncratic, humorous concepts that would later be largely phased out in favor of a more standardized high-fantasy aesthetic.
The Eighth Edition printing, marked by the distinctive collector number 297, represents the transition of the card into the modern card frame. This specific printing was released in 2003 as part of the first Core Set to feature the new, cleaner frame design intended to improve readability and modernize the game's visual identity. While the Dingus Egg remains a relic of an older design philosophy, its inclusion in the Eighth Edition ensured it remained accessible to a new generation of players during a pivotal era for the game's structural evolution.
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