Zodiac Monkey
Ninth Edition 285 • common
- Set
- Ninth Edition
- Collector number
- 285
- Rarity
- Common
- Mana cost
- 1 generic mana green mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- Green
- Artist
- Richard Sardinha
- Market price
- $0.40
What it does
Forestwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Forest.)
It lives mainly on fruit, leaves, and the occasional nose.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperLegal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
The Zodiac Monkey was originally released as part of the Portal Three Kingdoms set in 1999, which was designed specifically for the Asian market to introduce players to the mechanics of Magic: The Gathering through the lens of the historical Chinese epic, Romance of the Three Kingdoms. The set was later incorporated into the wider game ecosystem, with cards like the Zodiac Monkey seeing reprints in the Ninth Edition core set to allow broader access to these unique, flavor-rich creature types.
The card’s illustration was created by Richard Sardinha, a prolific artist in the trading card space during the late nineties and early two-thousands. Sardinha focused on capturing a nimble, anthropomorphic aesthetic that aligned with the mythical portrayal of the monkey in Eastern folklore, a deliberate stylistic choice intended to distinguish the creatures of the Portal series from the more traditional Western fantasy tropes that dominated the standard Magic: The Gathering sets of that era.
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