Puppeteer Clique
Commander 2017 121 • rare
- Set
- Commander 2017
- Collector number
- 121
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana cost
- 3 generic mana black mana black mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- Black
- Artist
- Daren Bader
- Market price
- $0.41
What it does
Flying
When this creature enters, put target creature card from an opponent's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. It gains haste. At the beginning of your next end step, exile it.
Persist (When this creature dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on it.)
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Puppeteer Clique was originally introduced in the 2008 Shadowmoor set, designed as part of a cycle of creatures featuring the persist mechanic, which allows a card to return to the battlefield from the graveyard with a -1/-1 counter after dying. The card was created to provide black decks with a unique method of temporary graveyard interaction, allowing players to seize control of their opponents' creatures for a single turn. Its design focuses on the chaotic, parasitic nature of the shadow-themed set, emphasizing a temporary and somewhat volatile advantage.
This specific printing appeared in the 2017 Commander preconstructed deck titled Vampiric Bloodlust. As an inclusion in the Commander series, the card was selected to bolster the strategy of graveyard manipulation and enter-the-battlefield trigger abuse common in the multiplayer format. The artwork by Nils Hamm captures the unsettling, ethereal aesthetic associated with the creature type, and the reprint served to make a mechanically distinct and utility-heavy card more accessible to a broader audience of players within the evolving Commander landscape.
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