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Alien first appeared on the ''[[Mystery Booster]]'' [[test card]] <c>Visitor from Planet Q</c>.<ref name="Release Notes">{{DailyRef|feature/mystery-booster-release-notes-2019-11-11|''Mystery Booster'' Release Notes|[[Eli Shiffrin]]|November 11, 2019}}</ref><ref>It is unclear if Planet Q represents either a separate plane or a planet within one of the known planes.</ref> The Visitor is an [[Instant Creature]], which is an unknown concept in the known [[Multiverse]]. ''[[Unfinity]]'' would later formally introduce alien as an [[eternal]] type with the introduction of aliens at [[Myra the Magnificent's Intergalactic Astrotorium of Fun]]. Aliens will appear in a premiere set for the first time in 2025's ''[[Space Opera]]'' set.<ref>{{EzTumblr|https://markrosewater.tumblr.com/post/724851390388781056|title=How much shared DNA is there between Unfinity and the unnamed outer space set?|August 5, 2023}}</ref> | Alien first appeared on the ''[[Mystery Booster]]'' [[test card]] <c>Visitor from Planet Q</c>.<ref name="Release Notes">{{DailyRef|feature/mystery-booster-release-notes-2019-11-11|''Mystery Booster'' Release Notes|[[Eli Shiffrin]]|November 11, 2019}}</ref><ref>It is unclear if Planet Q represents either a separate plane or a planet within one of the known planes.</ref> The Visitor is an [[Instant Creature]], which is an unknown concept in the known [[Multiverse]]. ''[[Unfinity]]'' would later formally introduce alien as an [[eternal]] type with the introduction of aliens at [[Myra the Magnificent's Intergalactic Astrotorium of Fun]]. Aliens will appear in a premiere set for the first time in 2025's ''[[Space Opera]]'' set.<ref>{{EzTumblr|https://markrosewater.tumblr.com/post/724851390388781056|title=How much shared DNA is there between Unfinity and the unnamed outer space set?|August 5, 2023}}</ref> This will presumably mark the introduction of extraterrestrial life to the canon storyline of Magic, several years after the type itself became eternal-legal. | ||
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* <c>The Sea Devils</c> [[saga]] from ''[[Doctor Who]]'' creates Alien Salamander tokens to represent the [https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Sea_Devil species of the same name] but they are technically from [[Earth]] and not aliens in the show. This is similar to [https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Silurian Silurians] like <c>Madame Vastra</c> who were only given the [[Lizard]] type and not the alien type. | * <c>The Sea Devils</c> [[saga]] from ''[[Doctor Who]]'' creates Alien Salamander tokens to represent the [https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Sea_Devil species of the same name] but they are technically from [[Earth]] and not aliens in the show. This is similar to [https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Silurian Silurians] like <c>Madame Vastra</c> who were only given the [[Lizard]] type and not the alien type (although given Silurians technically evolved on [[Earth]], they arguably wouldn't count anyway). | ||
* The [[Necron]], [[Tyranid]], [[Time Lord]], [[Dalek]], and [[Cyberman]] crossover races are all technically Aliens, but lack the type. | |||
* The [[Transformers]], being from the planet Cybertron, would also technically count as Aliens, but have only the [[Robot]] creature type. | |||
==Notes and references== | ==Notes and references== | ||
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Alien is a catch-all creature type that depicts a being from another world. It became an eternal legal type as of Unfinity.
History
Alien first appeared on the Mystery Booster test card Visitor from Planet Q.[2][3] The Visitor is an Instant Creature, which is an unknown concept in the known Multiverse. Unfinity would later formally introduce alien as an eternal type with the introduction of aliens at Myra the Magnificent's Intergalactic Astrotorium of Fun. Aliens will appear in a premiere set for the first time in 2025's Space Opera set.[4] This will presumably mark the introduction of extraterrestrial life to the canon storyline of Magic, several years after the type itself became eternal-legal.
Universes Beyond
Alien is used heavily in the Universes Beyond set Doctor Who due to its setting.[5] It was used as a catch-all creature type for species that didn't warrant their own creature type or as a modifier for species that resembled existing types. The exceptions to this were the Cybermen, Daleks, and Time Lords, which were made into types. Species that used the Alien type include the Adipose, Atraxi (Alien Eyes), Autons, Boekind, Ice Warriors, Judoon (Alien Rhinos), Kaleds, Lunar Hatchlings (Alien Beasts), Lupari (Alien Dogs), Memory Worms (Alien Worms), Menoptera (Alien Insects), Reapers (Alien Horrors), Sea Devils (Alien Salamanders, although Sea Devils are native to Earth), Silent, Sontarans, Star Whales (Alien Whale), Sycorax, The Flood (Alien Zombie Horrors), The Foretold (Alien Zombie), Thijarians, Time Beetles (Alien Insects), Vashta Nerada (Alien Horrors), Weeping Angels (Alien Angels), and Zygons (Alien Shapeshifters).
Notable Aliens
Tokens
| Token Name | Color | Type Line | P/T | Text Box | Source | Printings |
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| Alien | White | Creature — Alien | 2/2 | |||
| Blue | Creature — Alien | 0/0 | ||||
| Alien Angel | Black | Artifact Creature — Alien Angel | 2/2 | First strike, vigilance Whenever an opponent casts a creature spell, this permanent isn’t a creature until end of turn. |
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| Alien Insect | Green/White | Creature — Alien Insect | 1/1 | Flying | ||
| Alien Rhino | White | Creature — Alien Rhino | 4/4 | |||
| Alien Salamander | Green | Creature — Alien Salamander | 2/2 | Islandwalk | ||
| Alien Warrior | Red | Creature — Alien Warrior | 2/2 | |||
| Osgood, Operation Double | Blue | Creature — Human Alien Shapeshifter | 2/2 |  : Add . Spend this mana only to cast an artifact spell or activate an ability of an artifact.Paradox — Whenever you cast a spell from anywhere other than your hand, investigate. (This token’s mana cost is  .)
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Trivia
- The Sea Devils saga from Doctor Who creates Alien Salamander tokens to represent the species of the same name but they are technically from Earth and not aliens in the show. This is similar to Silurians like Madame Vastra who were only given the Lizard type and not the alien type (although given Silurians technically evolved on Earth, they arguably wouldn't count anyway).
- The Necron, Tyranid, Time Lord, Dalek, and Cyberman crossover races are all technically Aliens, but lack the type.
- The Transformers, being from the planet Cybertron, would also technically count as Aliens, but have only the Robot creature type.
Notes and references
- ↑ Mark Rosewater (July 30, 2023). "Where are aliens on the beeble scale?". Blogatog. Tumblr.
- ↑ Eli Shiffrin (November 11, 2019). "Mystery Booster Release Notes". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ It is unclear if Planet Q represents either a separate plane or a planet within one of the known planes.
- ↑ Mark Rosewater (August 5, 2023). "How much shared DNA is there between Unfinity and the unnamed outer space set?". Blogatog. Tumblr.
- ↑ Jubilee Finnegan (July 28, 2023). "A First Look at Magic: The Gathering - Doctor Who". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
