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| {{Infobox character
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| |image=Garth One-Eye.jpg
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| |birthplace=[[Kush]] on [[Dominaria]]
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| |lifetime=Born in 4044 AR
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| |race=[[Human]] [[Planeswalker]]
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| |colors=Center: {{mana|UG}}<br/>"Currently":{{mana|WUBRG}}
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| '''Garth One-eye''' (originally known as '''Galin''') was a powerful [[wizard]] and [[planeswalker]] from [[Kush]] on [[Dominaria (plane)|Dominaria]].<ref name="MH2 Card Preview">{{DailyRef|card-preview/garth-one-eye-2021-05-25|Garth One-Eye|[[Ethan Fleischer]]|May 25, 2021}}</ref>
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| ==History==
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| He was born as Galin, son of [[Cullinarn]], the master of the green-blue [[House of Oor-tael]]. The house was destroyed by [[Kuthuman]], the [[Grand Master of the Arena]] of [[Estark]], who was on a quest to become a [[planeswalker]]. Garth was five years old at the time of the event that would be known as the [[Night of Fire]], and [[Zarel]], the servant of Kuthuman, gouged his left eye out to torment his father. Garth ran back into the burning House and Zarel believed he was dead.
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| After twenty years in exile, he returned to Estark under the false name of Garth and manipulated the remaining houses and the new Grand Master, Zarel, so that he could win the tournament and meet Kuthuman, in what would be then known as the [[Time of Troubles]]. During his fights in the [[Arena (location)|Arena]] he became known to the mob as Garth One-eye. Garth was successful in defeating Kuthuman, and even managed to somehow use a spell to [[Igniting|steal the ability to walk the planes]]. Later, he willingly gave up planeswalking to live with the [[Benalish]] woman known at the time as [[Norreen]], whom he had met during his adventure.<ref name="arena">[[William R. Forstchen]] (1994). [[Arena (novel)|Magic: The Gathering - Arena]]. Harper Prism.</ref>
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| The two retired in the countryside of [[Kush|Gish]], with their child [[List of secondary characters/Dominaria|Hammen]], to grow a vineyard. However, Garth found leaving behind his powers much harder than he had thought and started journeying between the planes again. It was during one of his absences that Norreen and Hammen were kidnapped and brought to [[Benalia]].<ref name="shattered"/>
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| After the death of [[List of secondary characters/Dominaria|Sabriam]] and the rescue of Norreen and Hammen, Garth started a fight with [[Gull]] and [[Greensleeves]], thinking they had been the kidnappers. However, Greensleeves quickly brought the wizard to his senses. When confronted by Norreen on his negligence for family duty, Garth admitted the wrongness of his ways, giving up his spells satchel to Greensleeves and promising he would never abandon his family anymore. He then offered his knowledge of Dominaria, gathered during his wanderings, in order to bring the people from Greensleeves army to their homelands. Then he and his family returned to their vineyard, offering their help if Greensleeves requested it.<ref name="shattered">[[Clayton Emery]] (1994). [[Shattered Chains|Magic: The Gathering - Shattered Chains]]. Harper Prism.</ref>
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| ==Appearance==
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| Garth was a thin man, not tall, with a bony face, bronzed by the sun, and scruffy dark hair ill-cut. He was usually dressed in black and wore his spells satchel at his belt. In Norreen's opinion, Garth resembled a "scarecrow". His only arresting features were his eyes, turquoise blue. The lost eye, in fact, grew back thanks to his [[Igniting|ascension]], leaving a white scar-star around it.
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| ==On Garth's spark==
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| Garth appeared only in [[prerevisionist]] books, in which there was no mention of a [[planeswalker's spark]]: any mage could break the plane's veil with the right spells and sufficient [[mana]] and travel across the planes. To make the prerevisionist books fit [[Revisionist]] Continuity, many people believe that wizards who became planeswalkers by spells actually possessed sparks that were flared by the spells they cast, but didn't know of these sparks or their role in becoming planeswalkers. However, Garth might be an exception to this theory. The novel [[Arena (novel)|''Arena'']] states that the spell researched by [[Kirlen]] could grant the planeswalking powers to anyone casting it. It's not likely though, that Kirlen created a real spark with her spell because even planeswalkers don't understand its nature fully. The explanation of this might be that the spell just simulated powers of spark to some extent.
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| ==On Garth's mana==
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| Garth, despite being born to a family and guild of blue-green casters, demonstrated the use of all 5 [[color]]s of [[mana]].<ref name="MH2 Card Preview"/>
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| * [[Green]] mana: summoned a war [[mammoth]], called <c>Llanowar Elves</c>, cast <c>Fog</c>, Ironroot [[Treefolk]], <c>Wall of Wood</c>, <c>Wall of Brambles</c>, <c>Giant Growth</c>, <c>Giant Spider</c>. Conversely, didn't have [[regeneration]] to fix his eye, at least until his ignition.
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| * [[White]] mana: frequently erected [[Protection|Circles of Protection]], summoned white [[knight]], used [[Healing Salve]], <c>Reverse Damage</c> and <c>Armageddon</c>.
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| * [[Blue]] mana: used <c>Flashfreeze</c>, <c>Psionic Blast</c> on opponents in the arena. He used <c>invisibility</c> to hide from Zarel. He also used unnamed <c>Counterspell</c>s on several occasions. Can use <c>Levitation</c> on summoned creatures.
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| * [[Black]] mana: caught several guards with <c>Terror</c>. Was able to turn and control <c>Relentless Rats</c>. Summoned an <c>Manor Skeleton</c>, <c>Infernal Medusa</c>; summoned a <c>Lich</c> against [[Gull]].
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| * [[Red]] mana: [[Fireball]], <c>Wall of Stone</c>, <c>Ærathi Berserker</c>.
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| [[Artifacts]] he possessed: [[Juggernaut]] (won from [[Naru]]), <c>Disrupting Scepter</c>.
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| ==In-game references==
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| *<c>Garth One-Eye</c>
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| ==References==
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| {{Reflist}}
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| {{Dominaria|characters|state=collapsed}}
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| {{Planeswalker|characters}}
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| [[Category:Humans]]
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| [[Category:Wizards]]
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