Drowner Initiate
Shadowmoor 36 • common
- Set
- Shadowmoor
- Collector number
- 36
- Rarity
- Common
- Mana cost
- blue mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- Blue
- Artist
- E. M. Gist
- Market price
- $0.27
What it does
Whenever a player casts a blue spell, you may pay 1 generic mana. If you do, target player mills two cards.
Nothing satisfies a merrow as much as drowning what it cannot have.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperLegal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Drowner Initiate was released in 2008 as part of the Shadowmoor expansion for the Magic: The Gathering trading card game. Set in a world of eternal twilight characterized by cycles of light and dark, Shadowmoor introduced mechanics focused on color hybrid mana and persist, a keyword that allowed creatures to return to the battlefield after dying. This card exemplifies the set's emphasis on the interaction between blue mana and the creature-heavy, high-synergy playstyles central to the expansion's identity.
The card's visual design was rendered by artist Nils Hamm, whose work is renowned for its atmospheric and often ethereal aesthetic. Hamm was tasked with depicting the unique, eerie, and somewhat grotesque creatures that populate the shadow-drenched landscape of the plane. His illustration for the Initiate focuses on the otherworldly, aquatic nature of the figure, contributing to the set's overall sense of unsettling mystery and folklore-inspired fantasy that defined the visual language of the Shadowmoor block.
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