Prowling Nightstalker
Portal Second Age 83 • common
- Set
- Portal Second Age
- Collector number
- 83
- Rarity
- Common
- Mana cost
- 3 generic mana black mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- Black
- Artist
- Keith Parkinson
- Market price
- $0.16
What it does
This creature can't be blocked except by black creatures.
Silent as a serpent, twisted as a lone bog tree, evil as Tojira's heart.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernNot legal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperLegal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Prowling Nightstalker was released in 1998 as part of the Portal Second Age set for the Magic: The Gathering trading card game. This set was designed by Wizards of the Coast as a simplified, introductory experience intended to help new players transition into the game's more complex mechanics. The card occupies the black color identity, which at the time focused heavily on themes of death, shadow, and tactical manipulation.
The card features artwork by Margaret Organ-Kean, who contributed extensively to Magic: The Gathering during the late 1990s. Her illustration for the Nightstalker leans into the atmospheric, gothic aesthetic common to the set, utilizing dark, moody lighting to reflect the creature’s evasion-based game mechanic. Portal Second Age was received as a functional tool for teaching, though it remains a point of interest for collectors due to its unique, simplified frames and the standalone nature of the set's storyline within the broader multiverse.
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