Elvish Skysweeper
Ravnica: City of Guilds 162 • common
- Set
- Ravnica: City of Guilds
- Collector number
- 162
- Rarity
- Common
- Mana cost
- green mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- Green
- Artist
- Mark Tedin
- Market price
- $0.17
What it does
4 generic mana green mana, Sacrifice a creature: Destroy target creature with flying.
The spires of Ravnica are no different from the tall trees of other planes. The elves navigate and protect them just the same.
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
The Elvish Skysweeper was released in 2005 as part of the Ravnica: City of Guilds set, the first installment in the Ravnica block for the Magic: The Gathering trading card game. Within the game's lore, the card represents the Golgari Swarm, one of the ten distinct guilds that manage the sprawling, planet-wide city of Ravnica. The design reflects the guild's ecological focus on life, death, and decomposition, depicted through the ability to sacrifice other creatures to destroy flying threats.
The artwork was provided by the illustrator D. Alexander Gregory, whose work throughout the mid-2000s helped define the gritty, dense urban aesthetic of the Ravnica plane. By tasking an elf with mechanical or anti-air duties, the card aimed to highlight the unique blend of high fantasy and city-focused utility that characterized the set. It was received by the player base as a niche tactical card, favored primarily for its specific utility in limited-format draft play rather than as a centerpiece for competitive constructed decks.
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