Summoner's Egg
Fifth Dawn 157 • rare
- Set
- Fifth Dawn
- Collector number
- 157
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana cost
- 4 generic mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- Colorless
- Artist
- Jim Nelson
- Market price
- $3.99
What it does
Imprint — When this creature enters, you may exile a card from your hand face down.
When this creature dies, turn the exiled card face up. If it's a creature card, put it onto the battlefield under your control.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Summoner's Egg was released in June 2004 as part of the Fifth Dawn expansion for the Magic: The Gathering trading card game. This set served as the conclusion to the Mirrodin block, a cycle heavily focused on the artifact theme. The card was designed to capitalize on the set's mechanical interest in complex, artifact-heavy interactions, specifically allowing players to exile a creature face-down and summon it to the battlefield upon the egg's destruction.
The card’s illustration was created by artist Heather Hudson, who rendered the object as a metallic, bio-mechanical artifact consistent with the Mirrodin plane's industrial aesthetic. Upon its release, it was viewed as a niche but intriguing piece of engine-building technology, valued more for its potential in casual combo decks that sought to cheat high-cost creatures into play rather than for competitive tournament stability.
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