Faerie Impostor
Duel Decks: Speed vs. Cunning 43 • uncommon
- Set
- Duel Decks: Speed vs. Cunning
- Collector number
- 43
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Mana cost
- blue mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- Blue
- Artist
- Johann Bodin
- Market price
- $0.28
What it does
Flying
When this creature enters, sacrifice it unless you return another creature you control to its owner's hand.
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Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerLegal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Faerie Impostor was originally introduced in the 2012 expansion Return to Ravnica before being reprinted in the 2014 Duel Decks: Speed vs. Cunning. This specific version features artwork by Johann Bodin, who rendered the creature with a focus on the deceptive, ethereal aesthetic characteristic of the Faerie subtype within the Magic: The Gathering multiverse. The design emphasizes the card's mechanical function of forcing the player to return a creature to their hand, balancing its low mana cost with a mandatory drawback.
The Duel Decks series was conceived as a way to provide players with balanced, pre-constructed experiences that highlighted thematic rivalries. By including the Impostor in the Speed vs. Cunning collection, Wizards of the Coast positioned the card as a tool for aggressive, tempo-oriented strategies. Bodin's illustration captures the shifting, illusory nature of the creature, and the card has since remained a standard uncommon pick in limited formats and niche rogue-style decks.
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