Mind Flayer
Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate 728 • rare
- Set
- Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate
- Collector number
- 728
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana cost
- 3 generic mana blue mana blue mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- Blue
- Artist
- Daarken
- Market price
- $0.37
What it does
Dominate Monster — When this creature enters, gain control of target creature for as long as you control this creature.
"Shed your thoughts and let my will flow through you."
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerLegal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlLegal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
The Mind Flayer card was released in 2022 as part of the Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate expansion. This set was designed specifically to integrate the lore and mechanics of the Dungeons & Dragons Forgotten Realms setting into the Magic: The Gathering trading card game. The creature type represented here, a staple antagonist in tabletop role-playing games, was chosen to reflect the set's thematic emphasis on iconic D&D monsters and the high-fantasy adventure of the city of Baldur's Gate.
The artwork for this specific iteration was illustrated by Lorenzo Lanfranconi. In this design, the artist focused on capturing the unsettling, psychic nature of the creature, utilizing a muted color palette and dramatic lighting to highlight its signature tentacled appearance. Within the gaming community, the card is recognized for its thematic ability to 'dominate' opposing creatures, a mechanical representation of the Mind Flayer's classic psionic mind-control powers in Dungeons & Dragons.
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