Serrated Arrows

The Serrated Arrows card was originally featured in the Homelands expansion set released by Wizards of the Coast in 1995. As part of the World Championship Decks 1997 series, this specific printing commemorates the deck lists used by professional players during the 1997 Magic: The Gathering World Championship. These decks were produced as fixed-card sets to allow casual players to experience the strategies favored by top competitors of that era, complete with unique gold-bordered backs and facsimile signatures on the face of the cards to distinguish them from standard tournament-legal copies.

The design of Serrated Arrows serves as a functional utility artifact within the game, intended to provide creature control through the placement of depletion counters. It was illustrated by artist Susan Van Camp, whose aesthetic contribution to the early years of the game often leaned into the fantastical and organic themes prevalent in the mid-1990s. While Homelands was initially criticized for its lower power level compared to preceding sets, the card itself became a notable inclusion in competitive sideboard configurations for its efficiency in neutralizing small utility creatures.