Giant Oyster
Homelands 28 • uncommon
- Set
- Homelands
- Collector number
- 28
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Mana cost
- 2 generic mana blue mana blue mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- Blue
- Artist
- Nicola Leonard
- Market price
- $0.26
What it does
You may choose not to untap this creature during your untap step.
tap: For as long as this creature remains tapped, target tapped creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step, and at the beginning of each of your draw steps, put a -1/-1 counter on that creature. When this creature leaves the battlefield or becomes untapped, remove all -1/-1 counters from the creature.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Released in October 1995 as part of the Magic: The Gathering expansion set Homelands, Giant Oyster represents a period in the game's history characterized by a focus on flavor and thematic storytelling over tournament-level competitive power. The set was designed to explore the lore of the plane of Ulgrotha, a gothic, isolated world plagued by dark forces, which directly influenced the creature's unusual mechanics and artistic direction.
The card's artwork was provided by Nicola Leonard, who sought to capture the unsettling, predatory nature of the creature rather than a traditional monster aesthetic. By leaning into the surreal and stationary threat of an oyster that traps its prey, the design serves as a prime example of the creative freedom granted to artists during the mid-90s, though it was met with mixed reactions from players who found the gameplay mechanics cumbersome compared to more efficient creatures of the era.
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