Unnatural Selection
Mystery Booster 2 38 • rare
- Set
- Mystery Booster 2
- Collector number
- 38
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana cost
- 1 generic mana blue mana
- Type
- Enchantment
- Colors
- Blue
- Artist
- Kev Walker
- Market price
- $0.25
What it does
1 generic mana: Choose a creature type other than Wall. Target creature becomes that type until end of turn.
What nature makes, magic can modify.
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
Unnatural Selection is a rare enchantment originally released in the 2001 Magic: The Gathering expansion Odyssey. It was designed to provide players with a repeatable, low-cost method of manipulating the creature types of cards on the battlefield, reflecting the set's focus on graveyard interactions and tribal themes. The card serves as a technical utility piece, allowing players to bridge gaps between various creature-based synergies that require specific typings to function.
The artwork for the card was provided by veteran Magic illustrator Kev Walker, known for his gritty and atmospheric style that defined much of the game's aesthetic in the early 2000s. Walker’s depiction captures the theme of biological transmutation through a visceral, slightly unsettling visual that aligns with the card's mechanical function of forcing an 'unnatural' change upon a creature. The card was reprinted in the 2024 Mystery Booster 2 set, preserving its classic mechanical identity for a new generation of players.
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