Giant Albatross
Homelands 27b • common
- Set
- Homelands
- Collector number
- 27b
- Rarity
- Common
- Mana cost
- 1 generic mana blue mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- Blue
- Artist
- David A. Cherry
- Market price
- $0.11
What it does
Flying
When this creature dies, you may pay 1 generic mana blue mana. If you do, for each creature that dealt damage to this creature this turn, destroy that creature unless its controller pays 2 life. A creature destroyed this way can't be regenerated.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernNot legal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperLegal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Released in October 1995, the Giant Albatross is part of the Homelands expansion set for the Magic: The Gathering trading card game. Developed by Wizards of the Coast as a standalone story-driven set, Homelands was designed to expand the lore of the plane of Ulgrotha, a gothic, isolated world plagued by dark magic. The set was famously ambitious in its narrative scope but received mixed reactions from the player base at the time, who found its mechanical power level to be lower than previous expansions.
The artwork for the Giant Albatross was illustrated by Jeff A. Menges, a foundational artist for the early years of the game. His design aimed to capture the ethereal, ghostly nature of the creature, reflecting its specific game mechanics where it could exile itself to avoid damage. While the card is often cited by long-time collectors for its unique aesthetic contribution to the game’s early environmental storytelling, it remains a quintessential artifact of mid-nineties card game design.
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