Sewer Rats
Mirage 139 • common
- Set
- Mirage
- Collector number
- 139
- Rarity
- Common
- Mana cost
- black mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- Black
- Artist
- Martin McKenna
- Market price
- $0.14
What it does
black mana, Pay 1 life: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn. Activate no more than three times each turn.
You lie down with rats, and the rats run away.— Suq'Ata insult
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernNot legal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperLegal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Sewer Rats was released in 1996 as part of the Mirage expansion set for Magic: The Gathering. Developed by Wizards of the Coast, Mirage served as the first installment in the Mirage block and was notable for being the first set designed specifically to be played as a standalone draft environment. This card reflects the set's thematic shift toward more adventurous and tropical imagery compared to earlier, darker fantasy settings.
The card features artwork by Margaret Organ-Kean, who contributed several illustrations to the Mirage set. Her depiction of the Sewer Rats leaned into the gritty, urban decay implied by the card's name, utilizing a style consistent with the mid-nineties aesthetic of the game. Like many common cards from the era, it was received as a functional, low-cost utility creature, though it remains a nostalgic piece for those who collected during the mid-nineties expansion boom.
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