MTG · Card

◇ Catalog #253

Specimen Collector

DIGITAL ONLY

j21·#253·uncommon·nonfoil

Illus. Ravenna Tran

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in vault

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for trade

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wishlisted

Aug '21

5 yr ago

Played in EDH

EDHrec rank #22,111 · Fringe play

Variants

Nonfoil

Gameplay

Creature — Vedalken Wizard

When this creature enters, create a 1/1 green Squirrel creature token and a 0/3 blue Crab creature token. When this creature dies, create a token that's a copy of target token you control.

2/1

Legalities

tlrnot legal

duellegal

brawllegal

pennynot legal

PreDHnot legal

Rulings · 1

2021-06-18wotc

For Specimen Collector's last ability, the target token can be any token you control, not necessarily one of the token creatures you created due to its first ability, and not necessarily even a creature.

Context

This printing is one of 2 catalogued treatments from J21 — the lineup includes Nonfoil alongside the standard finish. Across our catalog the Rarix library tracks every variant in the same family so collectors can compare price, scarcity and demand inside a single lineage.

Card #253 of *Jumpstart: Historic Horizons*, the set that shipped alongside the August 2021 Jumpstart: Historic Horizons release.

Card type: Creature — Vedalken Wizard, color identity blue, printed at uncommon. Uncommons fill the middle-tier slots in a standard booster configuration. Mana cost: {4}{U} (5 converted).

Legal across the major constructed formats — Modern, Legacy, Vintage, and Commander — plus Standard rotation play.

EDHrec ranks this card #22,111 in Commander, putting it in the fringe-play tier of the format's playable pool.

Illustrated by Ravenna Tran. Rarix catalogs 117 other cards credited to this artist.