Groundbreaker
Planar Chaos 148 • rare
- Set
- Planar Chaos
- Collector number
- 148
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana cost
- green mana green mana green mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- Green
- Artist
- Matt Cavotta
- Market price
- $1.39
What it does
Trample, haste
At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice this creature.
The earth's memory is long, its retribution brief.
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
Groundbreaker was released in 2007 as part of the Planar Chaos expansion for Magic: The Gathering. As the middle set in the Time Spiral block, Planar Chaos explored an alternate timeline where the game's color pie—the philosophical and mechanical identities of the five colors—was reimagined. The card serves as a 'color-shifted' homage to Ball Lightning, a classic red creature, reimagined here in green to demonstrate how the game's mechanics might have evolved differently in a parallel reality.
The artwork was illustrated by Kev Walker, a prominent fantasy artist known for his gritty, dynamic style. Walker was tasked with translating the explosive, ephemeral nature of the original red card into a green-aligned creature that maintained the aggressive, high-risk, high-reward design philosophy. Upon its release, the card was received as a fascinating mechanical experiment, highlighting the set's central theme of challenging player expectations regarding which colors should have access to specific abilities like haste and trample.
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