Judge's Familiar
Return to Ravnica 218 • uncommon
- Set
- Return to Ravnica
- Collector number
- 218
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Mana cost
- white mana or blue mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- Blue · White
- Artist
- Jack Wang
- Market price
- $0.38
What it does
Flying
Sacrifice this creature: Counter target instant or sorcery spell unless its controller pays 1 generic mana.
"It misses nothing and it has no sense of humor."— Barvisa, courtroom scribe
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
Judge's Familiar was released in 2012 as part of the Return to Ravnica expansion for Magic: The Gathering. Designed as a common creature representing the Azorius Senate, it reflects the faction's focus on law, order, and control. The card serves as a low-cost flying threat with a built-in tax effect, a mechanic carefully calibrated by the development team to balance early-game interaction within the fast-paced Ravnica limited and constructed environments.
The art was illustrated by Zoltan Boros, who depicted the creature as a mechanical avian construct inherent to the cityscape of Ravnica. Boros was tasked with capturing the bureaucratic and somewhat detached aesthetic of the Azorius guild. The illustration was well-received by players for its thematic consistency, helping to anchor the identity of the white-blue color pair during the set's release and its subsequent appearance in competitive formats.
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