Skateboard
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 178 • uncommon
- Set
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- Collector number
- 178
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Mana cost
- 1 generic mana
- Type
- Artifact
- Colors
- Colorless
- Artist
- Hokyoung Kim
- Market price
- $0.32
What it does
When this Equipment enters, tap target permanent.
Equipped creature gets +1/+0 and has haste.
Equip 1 generic mana (1 generic mana: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
"Why skate a half-pipe when you can skate a sewer pipe?"
Where you can play it
- StandardLegal
- PioneerLegal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlLegal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles trading card series, produced by Topps in 1989, emerged during the height of the franchise's initial explosion into mainstream pop culture. Following the success of the animated series and the burgeoning demand for character-based merchandise, these cards were designed to capture the vibrant, rebellious energy of the turtles. The set utilized high-contrast photography and screen captures from the cartoon, aiming to appeal to children who wanted portable, collectible representations of their favorite heroes.
Card number 178 from this set features a stylized illustration of a skateboard, reflecting the mid-1980s street culture aesthetic that became synonymous with the Ninja Turtles' brand identity. The design choice to include skateboards and other urban accessories was a deliberate effort by creators Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird to ground their characters in the contemporary youth culture of New York City, bridging the gap between their comic book origins and the mass-marketed television persona.
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