Alien

Alien
Creature Type
(Subtype for creature/kindred cards)
Beeble Scale	8
Statistics	34 cards 5.9% 20.6% 17.6% 8.8% 17.6% 2.9% 2.9% 2.9% 2.9% 2.9% 8.8% 5.9% 10 Alien creation cards 30% 10% 10% 10% 20% 10% 10% as of Doctor Who: Regeneration
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type:"Alien"

Alien is a catch-all creature type that depicts a being from another world respective to the setting they are based in. It became an eternal legal type as of Unfinity.

History

Alien first appeared on the Mystery Booster test card Visitor from Planet Q. 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. 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. 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 Whales), 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).

The type reappeared in Fallout as a token generated by Recon Craft Theta, representing the Zetan species.

Notable Aliens

Non-canon

Un-iverse

• Ambassador Blorpityblorpboop
• Stephan

Doctor Who

• Davros (card)
• Iraxxa (card)
• Karvanista (card)
• Meep (card)
• Osgood (card)
• Strax (card)
• Face of Boe (card)
• Vrestin (card)

Tokens

Token Name	Color	Type Line	P/T	Text Box	Source	Printings
Alien	White	Creature — Alien	2/2		Adipose Offspring New New York North Pole Research Base
	Blue	Creature — Alien	0/0		Recon Craft Theta
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.	Aplan Mortarium Blink
Alien Insect	Green/​White	Creature — Alien Insect	1/1	Flying	Vrestin, Menoptra Leader
Alien Rhino	White	Creature — Alien Rhino	4/4		Fugitive of the Judoon
Alien Salamander	Green	Creature — Alien Salamander	2/2	Islandwalk	The Sea Devils
Alien Warrior	Red	Creature — Alien Warrior	2/2		Iraxxa, Empress of Mars
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 .)	Osgood, Operation Double

Gallery

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  Blorbian concepts from Unfinity by Jehan Choo.

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  Blorbian concepts from Unfinity by Jehan Choo.

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. In contrast, the closely related Silurians such as Madame Vastra were correctly only given the Lizard type and not the Alien type as they also evolved on Earth in the show.
• The Autobot, Cyberman, Dalek, Necron, Time Lord, and Tyranid crossover races are all technically aliens in their respective settings.