Hedron Crab
Zendikar 47 • uncommon
- Set
- Zendikar
- Collector number
- 47
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Mana cost
- blue mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- Blue
- Artist
- Jesper Ejsing
- Market price
- $3.39
What it does
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, target player mills three cards. (They put the top three cards of their library into their graveyard.)
Hedrons perplex minds both great and small.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
The Hedron Crab debuted in the 2009 Zendikar expansion for Magic: The Gathering, a set centered on themes of adventure and exploration within a perilous, shifting landscape. The card was designed to represent the strange, parasitic creatures that inhabited the floating stone monoliths known as hedrons, which define the visual identity of the Zendikar plane. Mechanically, it serves as an efficient tool for 'mill' strategies, forcing opponents to discard cards from their library, a function that reflects its unsettling, disruptive presence in the game's ecosystem.
The creature's iconic visual design is credited to illustrator Jesper Ejsing. His artwork captures the creature's eerie, crustacean-like form integrated with the ancient, crystalline aesthetic of the hedrons. Upon its release, the card quickly gained a reputation among players for its deceptively high power level in casual and competitive formats alike, leading it to become a staple of blue-aligned control decks. Its lasting popularity is attributed to this unique synergy between its evocative flavor and its ability to fundamentally alter the state of play.
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