Groundskeeper
Ninth Edition 247 • uncommon
- Set
- Ninth Edition
- Collector number
- 247
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Mana cost
- green mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- Green
- Artist
- Alan Rabinowitz
- Market price
- $0.31
What it does
1 generic mana green mana: Return target basic land card from your graveyard to your hand.
"Soldiers speak of defending the soil, but they care only for their nations. I care nothing for their nations and everything for the soil."
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerLegal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperLegal
- BrawlLegal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Groundskeeper was first introduced in the Champions of Kamigawa expansion in 2004 before being reprinted as card number 247 in the Ninth Edition core set, released in 2005. Ninth Edition served as a pivotal transitional set for Wizards of the Coast, marking the first time core set cards featured the modern card frame design with black borders, moving away from the traditional white-bordered aesthetic that had defined previous base sets.
The card’s illustration was created by Alan Rabinowitz, who sought to capture the thematic essence of a nature-bound caretaker tethered to the land. Within the gameplay mechanics of the era, the card was designed to support resource recursion strategies, specifically allowing players to recover basic lands from the graveyard. It remains a functional piece of Magic: The Gathering history, representing the steady refinement of card utility during the mid-2000s.
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