Obscura Initiate
Streets of New Capenna 50 • common
- Set
- Streets of New Capenna
- Collector number
- 50
- Rarity
- Common
- Mana cost
- 2 generic mana blue mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- Blue
- Artist
- Kim Sokol
- Market price
- $0.04
What it does
Flying
1 generic mana white mana or black mana: This creature gains lifelink until end of turn.
Obscura initiates are required to bring a gift of information. They are judged on both how useful it is and how hard it was to obtain.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerLegal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperLegal
- BrawlLegal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Obscura Initiate was released in 2022 as part of the Streets of New Capenna set for Magic: The Gathering. The card represents the Obscura, one of the five crime families dominating the art deco-inspired metropolis of New Capenna. The set’s design aesthetic heavily leans into 1920s noir and high-society intrigue, reflecting the magical underworld where information is treated as the most valuable currency.
The artwork, illustrated by Greg Staples, captures the essence of the Obscura faction’s emphasis on tactical deception and reconnaissance. In gameplay, the card features the casualty mechanic, which requires a player to sacrifice a creature to copy a spell, reinforcing the faction's narrative theme of using subordinates to achieve complex, behind-the-scenes objectives. Upon its release, it was noted for its utility in limited formats, serving as a functional piece of the set's broader flavor of organized crime and political manipulation.
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