Mortipede
Ravnica: City of Guilds 96 • common
- Set
- Ravnica: City of Guilds
- Collector number
- 96
- Rarity
- Common
- Mana cost
- 3 generic mana black mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- Black
- Artist
- Dave Dorman
- Market price
- $0.12
What it does
2 generic mana green mana: All creatures able to block this creature this turn do so.
Mortipede pheromones choke the streets with sickly sweetness, luring the rash and unwary into its waiting jaws.
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
Mortipede was released in 2005 as part of the Ravnica: City of Guilds expansion for the Magic: The Gathering trading card game. Developed by Wizards of the Coast, this set introduced the concept of guild-based gameplay, focusing on the ten unique factions inhabiting the urban plane of Ravnica. This card specifically represents the Golgari Swarm, a guild obsessed with the cycle of life and death, utilizing decay and necromancy to maintain the city's ecosystem.
The artwork for the card was created by artist Carl Critchlow, who utilized a dark, organic aesthetic to depict the creature's hybrid nature of insectoid anatomy and fungal decay. The design was intended to fit the Golgari's mechanical theme of regeneration and graveyard interaction, providing players with a recurring threat that could be bolstered by discarding land cards. Upon release, it served as a solid utility creature within the limited format of the set, praised for its thematic cohesion with the Golgari mechanics.
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