Kird Ape
Ninth Edition 199 • uncommon
- Set
- Ninth Edition
- Collector number
- 199
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Mana cost
- red mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- Red
- Artist
- Terese Nielsen
- Market price
- $0.32
What it does
This creature gets +1/+2 as long as you control a Forest.
It puts the "fur" in "fury."
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperLegal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Kird Ape was originally released in the 1993 Arabian Nights expansion, the first set of the Magic: The Gathering trading card game. It quickly earned a reputation as a highly efficient creature for aggressive decks, as its ability to become a 2/3 for a single mana provided significant pressure in the game's early years. The card is a fundamental piece of Magic history, representing the high-power, low-cost design philosophy prevalent in the game's inception.
For the Ninth Edition core set released in 2005, Wizards of the Coast commissioned illustrator Terese Nielsen to provide new art for the card. Nielsen chose a dynamic, fluid style that emphasized the creature's primal and athletic nature, moving away from the more literal interpretation of the original artwork. Her rendition became a fan favorite, praised for its composition and the distinct artistic signature she brought to the core set's aesthetic transition.
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