Fruitcake Elemental
Happy Holidays 6 • rare
- Set
- Happy Holidays
- Collector number
- 6
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana cost
- 1 generic mana green mana green mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- Green
- Artist
- Darrell Riche
- Finish
- Foil
What it does
Fruitcake Elemental is indestructible.
At the end of your turn, Fruitcake Elemental deals 7 damage to you.
3 generic mana: Target player gains control of Fruitcake Elemental.
Experiments intended to create the perfect holiday emissary resulted in a substance harder than darksteel and a fraction as merry.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernNot legal
- LegacyNot legal
- VintageNot legal
- CommanderNot legal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerNot legal
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Where it came from
The Fruitcake Elemental was released in the Happy Holidays promotional set, a series of annual, non-tournament-legal cards issued by Wizards of the Coast to celebrate the winter season. Distributed primarily to employees and select partners during the late 1990s, these cards were intended as lighthearted tokens of corporate goodwill, often featuring whimsical or meta-textual designs that played on the mechanics of the game while embracing festive themes.
Artist Darrell Riche provided the illustration, capturing the creature as a chaotic, confectionary construct intended to embody the trope of the unwanted holiday dessert. The design focuses on the creature's status as a 'rare' entity with tongue-in-cheek mechanics, reflecting a tradition of inside jokes within the trading card game community. While these cards are not legal for competitive play, they are highly regarded by collectors for their historical connection to the culture of the game's development era.
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About Fruitcake Elemental
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