Groundskeeper
Ninth Edition 247★ • uncommon
- Set
- Ninth Edition
- Collector number
- 247★
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Mana cost
- green mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- Green
- Artist
- Alan Rabinowitz
- Finish
- Foil
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 DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Groundskeeper was originally released in the Ninth Edition core set for the Magic: The Gathering trading card game, which debuted in 2005. It was designed to serve as a recurring utility creature within the green color identity, offering players a way to retrieve land cards from their graveyard to their hand. The core sets of that era were primarily composed of reprints from previous expansions, intended to provide a stable foundation for the game's evolving mechanics and to help newer players learn the fundamental loops of resource management.
The artwork for this card was created by illustrator Edward P. Beard Jr., who was a prolific contributor to the game during the mid-2000s. His design for the Groundskeeper leans into the fantasy aesthetic of a forest guardian, depicting a weathered, stoic figure attuned to the natural world. While the card is often viewed as a niche functional piece rather than a competitive staple, it remains a notable example of the consistent, thematic world-building that characterized the artistic direction of the Ninth Edition set.
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