Withered Wretch
Friday Night Magic 2003 12 • rare
- Set
- Friday Night Magic 2003
- Collector number
- 12
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana cost
- black mana black mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- Black
- Artist
- Tim Hildebrandt
- Finish
- Foil
What it does
1 generic mana: Exile target card from a graveyard.
Once it consecrated the dead. Now it desecrates them.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Withered Wretch was originally introduced in the Legions expansion of the Magic: The Gathering trading card game in 2003. This particular version was released as a promotional card for the Friday Night Magic program, a weekly grassroots event series hosted by local game stores to foster community engagement and reward consistent play. The card's artwork, provided by the artist Justin Hampton, reflects the dark, macabre aesthetic associated with the card's ability to manipulate graveyard resources.
The design of Withered Wretch serves as a functional tool for competitive play, specifically targeting decks that rely on graveyard synergies by allowing players to exile cards from any graveyard at a low mana cost. Within the context of the 2003 competitive meta, it was recognized as a highly efficient sideboard card. The Friday Night Magic printing features a distinct foil treatment and the program's signature purple-hued expansion symbol, which differentiates it from the standard card stock used in regular expansion sets.
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