Dust Elemental
Planar Chaos 5 • rare
- Set
- Planar Chaos
- Collector number
- 5
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana cost
- 2 generic mana white mana white mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- White
- Artist
- rk post
- Market price
- $0.42
What it does
Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)
Flying; fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
When this creature enters, return three creatures you control to their owner's hand.
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
Dust Elemental was released in 2007 as part of the Planar Chaos expansion for Magic: The Gathering. The set explored an alternate-reality version of the game's multiverse, imagining how colors and mechanics might differ if history had unfolded differently. As a creature representing the concept of shifting, unstable matter, the card was designed to highlight the set's focus on experimental color-pie mechanics, specifically leveraging the white color identity to manipulate creature permanents in a way that felt ethereal and transient.
The card’s illustration was created by artist Jim Murray, whose work is characterized by a high-fantasy aesthetic that emphasizes fluidity and atmospheric movement. Murray aimed to capture the elemental's unstable composition, depicting it as a swirling, kinetic manifestation of debris and dust rather than a solid entity. Upon its release, the card became a subject of interest for players who appreciated its unique ability to reset enter-the-battlefield effects, solidifying its place as a functional piece within the broader design space of the Planar Chaos 'timeshifted' mechanics.
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