Saproling
Shards of Alara Tokens 9 • common
- Set
- Shards of Alara Tokens
- Collector number
- 9
- Rarity
- Common
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- Green
- Artist
- Trevor Claxton
- Market price
- $0.23
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
The Saproling token from the Shards of Alara set, released in October 2008, serves as a functional game piece for Magic: The Gathering. Within the lore of the Alara block, these tokens represent the rapidly growing plant creatures conjured by mages associated with the shard of Naya, a lush, mana-rich plane defined by its reliance on nature and survival of the fittest. The token was designed to track the battlefield state when cards like Mycoloth or various green-aligned spells created these recurring, ephemeral units.
The illustration for this specific token was executed by artist Greg Staples. Moving away from the more traditional fungal appearance of earlier Saproling iterations, Staples rendered the creature with a distinctly organic, woodland aesthetic that mirrored the vibrant and primal visuals of the Naya shard. Upon its release, it became a standard inclusion in booster packs, widely utilized by players to represent the swarm-based strategies popular in the format during that era.
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