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Magic: The Gathering

Night Soil

Fallen Empires 71a • common

Set
Fallen Empires
Collector number
71a
Rarity
Common
Mana cost
green mana green mana
Type
Enchantment
Colors
Green
Artist
Sandra Everingham
Market price
$0.19
$0.19est. via TCGplayer
104,743cards tracked
4other printings of this card
Card face

What it does

1 generic mana, Exile two creature cards from a single graveyard: Create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token.

Some said killing the Thallids only encouraged them.
Formats

Where you can play it

  • StandardNot legal
  • PioneerNot legal
  • ModernNot legal
  • LegacyLegal
  • VintageLegal
  • CommanderLegal
  • PauperLegal
  • BrawlNot legal
  • HistoricNot legal
  • TimelessNot legal
  • Penny DreadfulNot legal
  • OathbreakerLegal

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Provenance

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Night Soil was released in 1994 as part of Fallen Empires, the fourth expansion set for the Magic: The Gathering trading card game. Developed by Wizards of the Coast, the set was designed to reflect a dark, war-torn world where civilizations were forced to harvest resources from their own decay, a theme that heavily influenced the macabre and unsettling tone of the card's artwork.

The card was illustrated by Quinton Hoover, a prominent artist in the early days of Magic. Hoover's style, characterized by fine line work and expressive, often gothic figures, aimed to capture the desperate nature of the card's function—exiling creatures from graveyards to create tokens. Upon release, the card was viewed as a niche utility tool, praised for its flavor integration but debated for its mechanical efficiency in the fast-paced gameplay environments of the mid-nineties.

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