Spire Monitor
New Phyrexia 46 • common
- Set
- New Phyrexia
- Collector number
- 46
- Rarity
- Common
- Mana cost
- 4 generic mana blue mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- Blue
- Artist
- Daniel Ljunggren
- Market price
- $0.06
What it does
Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)
Flying
Each monitor is given an eye for each spire it is to guard.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperLegal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Spire Monitor was released in 2011 as part of the New Phyrexia expansion for Magic: The Gathering. The set served as the climactic conclusion to the Scars of Mirrodin block, depicting the total conquest of the plane of Mirrodin by the Phyrexians. Within the game's lore, the card represents the corrupted evolution of the plane's avian inhabitants, reflecting the set's central theme of biological assimilation and the ruthless transformation of life into cold, mechanical artifice.
The artwork for Spire Monitor was created by Igor Kieryluk, who illustrated the creature to embody the aesthetic shift of the setting. By blending organic flight patterns with the jagged, metallic geometry characteristic of the Phyrexian aesthetic, Kieryluk captured the unsettling hybridization defining the era. The design was received as a functional addition to the blue color's repertoire, specifically noted for its flash ability which allows it to impact the board state during an opponent's turn, a strategic hallmark of the faction's deceptive nature.
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