Recycla-bird
Mystery Booster Playtest Cards 2019 28 • rare
- Set
- Mystery Booster Playtest Cards 2019
- Collector number
- 28
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana cost
- blue mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- Blue
- Artist
- Kevin Yee
- Market price
- $0.87
What it does
Flying
When Recycla-bird dies, put a flying counter on target creature you control.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernNot legal
- LegacyNot legal
- VintageNot legal
- CommanderNot legal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerNot legal
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Where it came from
Recycla-bird was released as part of the Mystery Booster playtest set, a unique 2019 initiative by Wizards of the Coast for Magic: The Gathering. These cards were designed to simulate a chaos-draft experience, featuring experimental and intentionally unconventional designs that pushed the boundaries of standard game mechanics. They were never printed in a tournament-legal set, serving instead as a playful meta-commentary on the game's design history.
The card features an aesthetic reminiscent of early Magic: The Gathering white-bordered cards, incorporating the signature 'playtest' stamp that identifies it as a developmental prototype. The design emphasizes a tongue-in-cheek approach to card recycling, playing on the themes of sustainability and card advantage within the game’s resource economy. It was received by players as a collectible oddity, prized for its rarity and its role as an artifact of the game's internal testing process.
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About Recycla-bird
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