Volcanic Dragon
Portal 153 • rare
- Set
- Portal
- Collector number
- 153
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana cost
- 4 generic mana red mana red mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- Red
- Artist
- Tom Wänerstrand
- Market price
- $2.38
What it does
Flying, haste
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerLegal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlLegal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Volcanic Dragon was released in 1997 as part of the Portal set, an introductory expansion for the Magic: The Gathering trading card game. This set was specifically designed to streamline the game's complex ruleset to make it more accessible to beginners, replacing traditional keyword-heavy mechanics with more descriptive, approachable card text.
The card features artwork by Tom Wänerstrand, who contributed numerous illustrations to the early years of the game. His depiction of the dragon captures the creature amidst a volatile, fiery landscape, emphasizing the raw elemental power that defined red-aligned cards in the game's color pie. While Portal was initially met with mixed reactions from veteran players who preferred the intricacies of the standard sets, Volcanic Dragon became an iconic representative of the set's simplified, high-impact creature design.
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