Horseshoe Crab
Urza's Saga 80 • common
- Set
- Urza's Saga
- Collector number
- 80
- Rarity
- Common
- Mana cost
- 2 generic mana blue mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- Blue
- Artist
- Scott Kirschner
- Market price
- $0.17
What it does
blue mana: Untap this creature.
In the final days before the disaster, all the crabs on Tolaria migrated from inlets, streams, and ponds back to the sea. No one took note.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperLegal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Released in October 1998 as part of the Urza's Saga set for Magic: The Gathering, the Horseshoe Crab was designed to explore the mechanical possibilities of the untap ability. Within the context of the game's lore, the set marked a shift toward the artifacts-matter theme, and the card reflects the set's broader tendency to provide utility creatures that could interact with complex board states.
The card features an illustration by the artist Brian Snoddy, whose work helped define the aesthetic of the late nineties era of the game. Snoddy’s approach emphasized a grounded, creature-focused style that was common in the early stages of Magic's expansion, and the card was generally received as a functional, if understated, piece of the blue-aligned card pool at the time.
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About Horseshoe Crab
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