Shambling Swarm
Torment 82 • rare
- Set
- Torment
- Collector number
- 82
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana cost
- 1 generic mana black mana black mana black mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- Black
- Artist
- Arnie Swekel
- Market price
- $0.47
What it does
When this creature dies, distribute three -1/-1 counters among one, two, or three target creatures. For each -1/-1 counter you put on a creature this way, remove a -1/-1 counter from that creature at the beginning of the next end step.
Chainer's madness personified, it exists only to slaughter the innocent.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernNot legal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Shambling Swarm was released in 2002 as part of the Torment expansion for Magic: The Gathering. The set was designed to explore themes of black mana, shifting the balance of the game to favor the color's darker, graveyard-centric mechanics. As a creature with a death-trigger ability that requires the controller to return creatures to their hand, it emphasizes the cyclical, resource-heavy nature of the set's design philosophy.
The card features artwork by Christopher Moeller, who contributed extensively to the visual identity of Magic during this era. Moeller aimed to convey the grotesque, amalgamated nature of the creature, utilizing earthy tones and stark lighting to emphasize the swarm's unsettling, unified mass. Upon its release, it was regarded as a functional utility card within the set’s aggressive black-aligned strategies, favored for its ability to generate recurring value in limited formats.
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