Pygmy Pyrosaur
Urza's Legacy 87 • common
- Set
- Urza's Legacy
- Collector number
- 87
- Rarity
- Common
- Mana cost
- 1 generic mana red mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- Red
- Artist
- Dan Frazier
- Market price
- $0.09
What it does
This creature can't block.
red mana: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.
Do not judge a lizard by its size.— Ghitu proverb
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
Pygmy Pyrosaur was released in 1999 as part of the Urza's Legacy expansion for the Magic: The Gathering trading card game. Developed by Wizards of the Coast, this set was designed to follow the narrative arc of Urza, a central figure in the game's lore, and introduced mechanics like Echo, which required players to pay a cost on the turn after a creature entered the battlefield. The card reflects the high-fantasy aesthetic characteristic of the era, focusing on the elemental creatures that populated the plane of Shiv.
The card's illustration was created by artist Heather Hudson, whose work defined much of the visual identity for Magic: The Gathering during the late 1990s. Hudson employed a vibrant, painterly style to capture the Pyrosaur’s connection to fire magic. While Pygmy Pyrosaur was considered a niche card within the competitive landscape of the time, it remains a recognized example of Hudson's contribution to the set's creature design and the broader expansion of the game's creature-type variety.
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