Orcish Captain
Fifth Edition 254 • uncommon
- Set
- Fifth Edition
- Collector number
- 254
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Mana cost
- red mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- Red
- Artist
- Charles Gillespie
- Market price
- $0.30
What it does
1 generic mana: Flip a coin. If you win the flip, target Orc creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn. If you lose the flip, it gets -0/-2 until end of turn.
There's a chance to win every battle.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernNot legal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
The Orcish Captain is a common creature card featured in the Fifth Edition of Magic: The Gathering, released in 1997. As a core set release, Fifth Edition served as a comprehensive retrospective of the game's first four years, compiling cards from previous expansions into a single, cohesive pool. This specific iteration sought to maintain the aggressive, low-cost utility that defined red-aligned creature strategies during the early stages of the game's development.
The artwork for this version was illustrated by Melissa A. Benson, a prominent contributor to the game's early aesthetic. Benson’s work on this card leans into the classic, gritty fantasy style that characterized the mid-90s era of the trading card game. By providing a tactical bonus to other Orc creatures, the card was designed to encourage tribal synergy, reflecting the mechanical focus on creature-type interaction that Wizards of the Coast was refining during that period.
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