Tetravus
Fourth Edition 350 • rare
- Set
- Fourth Edition
- Collector number
- 350
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana cost
- 6 generic mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- Colorless
- Artist
- Mark Tedin
- Market price
- $1.89
What it does
Flying
This creature enters with three +1/+1 counters on it.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may remove any number of +1/+1 counters from this creature. If you do, create that many 1/1 colorless Tetravite artifact creature tokens. They each have flying and "This token can't be enchanted."
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may exile any number of tokens created with this creature. If you do, put that many +1/+1 counters on this creature.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernNot legal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Tetravus was first introduced in the Antiquities expansion in 1994, designed during Magic: The Gathering’s early years to explore the tactical potential of artifact creatures. It was later reprinted in the 1995 Fourth Edition core set, which served as a foundational collection intended to stabilize the game's mechanics and card pool for a rapidly growing player base. The card’s design, characterized by the ability to split into smaller 'Tetravite' tokens, was an early experiment in complex board state management.
The illustration for Tetravus was created by artist Anson Maddocks, whose distinct, eerie aesthetic helped define the visual language of the game’s first few sets. His work on this card depicts the creature as a surreal, mechanical construct, leaning into the high-fantasy industrial theme of the Antiquities era. The card is fondly remembered by long-time collectors for its unique utility and the iconic, slightly unsettling art style that remains a hallmark of 1990s trading card design.
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