Tarpan
Ice Age 267 • common
- Set
- Ice Age
- Collector number
- 267
- Rarity
- Common
- Mana cost
- green mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- Green
- Artist
- Margaret Organ-Kean
- Market price
- $0.18
What it does
When this creature dies, you gain 1 life.
"A good Tarpan will serve you, faithful and true. A bad one will kick you in the head."— General Jarkeld, the Arctic Fox
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
Tarpan was released in 1995 as part of the Ice Age expansion for the Magic: The Gathering trading card game. Created by Wizards of the Coast, this set was notable for being the first to introduce the concept of 'snow-covered' lands and mechanics that interacted specifically with the cold, reflecting a shift toward set-specific thematic play during the game's early years.
The card illustration was provided by artist Anson Maddocks, one of the original illustrators for the game's core sets. His rendering of the wild horse aimed to evoke the prehistoric aesthetic of the Ice Age expansion, utilizing a gritty, hand-drawn style common to the mid-nineties era of the game. Like many common cards from the set, it was designed primarily to fill out the color pie for limited play formats, serving as a functional, if modest, inclusion in green-aligned decks.
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