Mesa Chicken
Unglued 9 • common
- Set
- Unglued
- Collector number
- 9
- Rarity
- Common
- Mana cost
- white mana white mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- White
- Artist
- Kev Walker
- Market price
- $0.30
What it does
Stand up, Flap your arms, Cluck like a chicken: This creature gains flying until end of turn.
"Lo! lord of layers proudly comb-crested Hero to hens father to feathers Crowing sun-caller weaver of wattle Elder to eggs."— *Rooster Saga*
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernNot legal
- LegacyNot legal
- VintageNot legal
- CommanderNot legal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerNot legal
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Where it came from
The Mesa Chicken was released in 1998 as part of Unglued, the first 'silver-bordered' expansion set for Magic: The Gathering. Designed by Wizards of the Coast as a parody of traditional gameplay, the set focused on humor and experimental mechanics that broke the established rules of the trading card game. The Mesa Chicken was intended to capture the absurdity of the set, utilizing a 'chickens' creature type that played on the game's creature-type taxonomy.
The card illustration was provided by artist Brian Snoddy, whose whimsical and loose ink-wash style was a departure from the high-fantasy realism typical of the period. By depicting a literal chicken standing on a desert mesa, the art leaned into the pun-heavy, tongue-in-cheek identity that defined the Unglued project. While the set was not tournament-legal, it was warmly received by fans as a creative, lighthearted subversion of the competitive scene.
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