Ruinous Gremlin
Kaladesh 128 • common
- Set
- Kaladesh
- Collector number
- 128
- Rarity
- Common
- Mana cost
- red mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- Red
- Artist
- Steve Prescott
- Market price
- $0.03
What it does
2 generic mana red mana, Sacrifice this creature: Destroy target artifact.
City officials once sent twenty gleaming automatons to exterminate a nest of gremlins. They soon saw the error of their ways.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerLegal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperLegal
- BrawlLegal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Ruinous Gremlin was released in 2016 as part of the Kaladesh expansion for the Magic: The Gathering trading card game. The set draws inspiration from an aesthetic blend of art deco and steampunk, centered on an inventiveness-focused world where aether serves as the primary energy source. Within this narrative, gremlins are depicted as small, troublesome pests that consume aether, often sabotaging the machinery built by the city's artificers.
The card was illustrated by Johannes Voss, a long-time contributor to the game known for his evocative and character-focused style. In this piece, Voss captures the creature's destructive, frantic nature, emphasizing its role as a chaotic element within the structured, highly technical society of the Kaladesh plane. The design was intended to serve as a low-cost, aggressive creature, functioning mechanically to disrupt an opponent's artifact-heavy strategy.
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