Phyrexian Delver
Invasion 115 • rare
- Set
- Invasion
- Collector number
- 115
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana cost
- 3 generic mana black mana black mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- Black
- Artist
- Dana Knutson
- Market price
- $1.25
What it does
When this creature enters, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. You lose life equal to that card's mana value.
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
Released in the Invasion expansion in 2000, Phyrexian Delver represents a significant moment in Magic: The Gathering lore. The set focused on the conflict between the plane of Dominaria and the invading forces of the Phyrexians, a biomechanical civilization. As a rare creature card, it was designed to mechanically reflect the invasive nature of the Phyrexians by allowing players to return creatures from the graveyard to the battlefield, emphasizing the theme of reanimation and decay that defined the faction's gameplay identity.
The artwork was provided by Dana Knutson, whose style was instrumental in defining the visual language of the Phyrexians during this era. Knutson’s depiction captures the quintessential Phyrexian aesthetic: a grotesque fusion of necrotic organic matter and cold, industrial machinery. By highlighting the creature's eerie, reconstructed anatomy, the illustration successfully grounded the card's mechanics in the dark, science-fantasy narrative that dominated the Invasion block, and it remains a recognizable example of the set's distinctive artistic direction.
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