Foul Imp
Ninth Edition 132 • common
- Set
- Ninth Edition
- Collector number
- 132
- Rarity
- Common
- Mana cost
- black mana black mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- Black
- Artist
- Kev Walker
- Market price
- $0.11
What it does
Flying
When this creature enters, you lose 2 life.
The imp, unaware of its own odor, paused to catch its breath . . . and promptly died.
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
Foul Imp debuted in the Ninth Edition core set of Magic: The Gathering, released in 2005. As a core set, Ninth Edition was designed to provide a foundational pool of cards for players, featuring a mix of reprints from across the game's history. This specific card was intended to fill the black color's role of offering aggressive, flying creatures that carry a self-damaging drawback, a hallmark of the color's philosophy of trading life for power.
The card features an illustration by Greg Staples, whose work is characterized by a dark, visceral aesthetic that captures the unsettling nature of the creature. Within the design framework of the game, Foul Imp serves as a classic utility piece, intended to create tension for the player who must decide if the recurring life loss is worth the pressure of an evasive aerial threat. It was received as a straightforward, functional inclusion typical of the mid-2000s design ethos for core sets.
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