Scion of the Swarm
Foundations Jumpstart 487 • uncommon
- Set
- Foundations Jumpstart
- Collector number
- 487
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Mana cost
- 3 generic mana black mana black mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- Black
- Artist
- Ekaterina Burmak
- Market price
- $0.29
What it does
Flying
Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Vampires are now masters of their own fates, commanders of their own legions.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerLegal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlLegal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Scion of the Swarm is a card featured in the Magic: The Gathering set Foundations Jumpstart, released in late 2024. The set was designed to act as an entry point for new players, blending modern card design philosophies with the approachable, randomized deck-building structure of the Jumpstart format. As part of a core collection, the card serves to reinforce the mechanics associated with black-aligned creature strategies, focusing on the high-fantasy insectoid themes that have long been a staple of the game's creature typings.
The visual design of the card emphasizes the grotesque and intricate aesthetic traditional to the game's swarm-based archetypes. It was created to provide a functional and thematic anchor for players exploring the set's pre-constructed packets. Like other cards in the Foundations release, it was crafted to be intuitive for beginners while maintaining the mechanical complexity and flavor that established players expect from the Magic: The Gathering multiverse.
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