Dream Stalker
Time Spiral 58 • common
- Set
- Time Spiral
- Collector number
- 58
- Rarity
- Common
- Mana cost
- 1 generic mana blue mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- Blue
- Artist
- Brian Despain
- Market price
- $0.16
What it does
When this creature enters, return a permanent you control to its owner's hand.
What happens when it is the dream that wakes and the sleeper that fades into memory?
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
Dream Stalker was released in 2006 as part of the Time Spiral expansion for the Magic: The Gathering trading card game. The set was designed to lean heavily into nostalgia, featuring mechanics and creature types that referenced the game's long history while introducing new interactions. Within this context, the card was created as a common-rarity blue creature that utilizes the bounce mechanic, requiring the player to return a permanent they control to their hand upon entering the battlefield.
The artwork was provided by Brian Despain, an illustrator known for his distinct, melancholic style and recurring use of mechanical-animal hybrids. For this piece, Despain leaned into the ethereal and unsettling nature of the Dream Stalker, crafting a figure that feels out of place and transient, aligning with the card's mechanical function of phasing in and out of the game state. It was received by the player base as a versatile tool for both protecting key cards from removal and re-triggering enter-the-battlefield effects.
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About Dream Stalker
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