Magic the Gathering has always featured zombies as one of the main creature types for the color black. Who doesn't like shambling masses of zombies at their disposal to vanquish their enemies? Sometimes they get less or more popular, depending on the focus of the given set, but they are always there. Here are some older zombies:
Headless Horseman (later classified as a zombie)
Fleshbag Maurader
Grave Titan
Bog Raiders
Geth, Lord of the Vault
Korlash, Heir to the Blackblade
Thraximundar
Since the Unglued set (which featured non-tournament legal cards for fun) in 1998, there have been full art token cards to show regular zombies with no special abilities that are usually produced through a creature, like Grave Titan, or a spell of some sort. These all have the same strength and toughness (2/2), but I like how the artists imagine them differently, depending on the set. Here are a few of the zombie tokens used throughout the years.
Unglued
10th Edition
Shards of Alara
M10
New Phyrexia
Innistrad
Innistrad is the newest set that features classic monsters in new and different ways. Instead ow werewolves, vampire, and zombies all being black creatures, they are all over the color spectrum except white (which is reserved for humans, spirits, and angels). Here are some of the new zombies and zombie cards that are a bit different than their earlier counterparts:
Skaab Ruinator
Endless Ranks of the Undead
Grimgrin the Corpse Born
Unbreathing Horde
I hope zombies will always be a main creature type in Magic and I can't wait to build myself an awesome zombie deck with these new Innistrad cards!
2 comments:
Wow.... i'm so out of it! The only card I recognise is the Headless Horseman. But I'll confess I quit playing Magic somewhere just before Ice Age released, so that's eons ago.
such different renditions. although the ones with weapons and swords and such don't fly with me for how i see zombies.
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