Giant Turtle
Legends 188 • common
- Set
- Legends
- Collector number
- 188
- Rarity
- Common
- Mana cost
- 1 generic mana green mana green mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- Green
- Artist
- Jeff A. Menges
- Market price
- $0.43
What it does
This creature can't attack if it attacked during your last turn.
"The turtle lives 'twixt plated decks/ Which practically conceal its sex./ I think it clever of the turtle/ In such a fix to be so fertile."— Ogden Nash, "The Turtle"
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
The Giant Turtle was released as part of the Legends expansion set for the Magic: The Gathering trading card game in 1994. As one of the earliest expansions, Legends was designed to expand the game's lore and introduce a variety of legendary creatures and thematic spells. The card reflects the early aesthetic of the game, characterized by a mix of high fantasy tropes and experimental mechanical design that defined the mid-90s era of collectible card games.
The illustration for the Giant Turtle was created by artist Anson Maddocks, who was a prolific contributor to the game's visual identity during its formative years. Maddocks utilized a distinct, grounded illustrative style that helped establish the visual language for the game's various creature types. The card's mechanics, which focused on defensive durability, were intended to balance the gameplay by providing players with a resilient blocker, a common design goal for green-aligned creatures at the time.
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