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| {{otheruses|Prodigal Sorcerer}}
| | '''Prodigal Sorcerer''' can refer to: |
| [[File:LEA Prodigal Sorcerer.jpg|thumb|right|250 px|<c title="Prodigal Sorcerer">Prodigal Sorcerer|Alpha</c> from ''[[Limited Edition Alpha|Alpha]]''.]] | | *[[Prodigal Sorcerer (card)|Prodigal Sorcerer]], a card |
| <c>Prodigal Sorcerer</c> is a blue 1/1 [[Human]] [[Wizard]] creature card with the [[activated ability]] "{{T}}: Prodigal Sorcerer deals 1 damage to target creature or player.". The card was introduced in ''[[Limited Edition|Limited Edition Alpha]]'', where its artist credit is incorrect, with [[Douglas Shuler]] misspelled as "Douglas Schuler".
| | *'''Prodigal sorcerer''' is a term used in reference to a wizard who left the [[Institute of Arcane Study]], in this way breaking its tradition. Known prodigal sorcerers include [[Alligarius]] and [[Arlen]]. |
| | *''[[The Prodigal Sorcerer]]'', a 1995 [[Magic: The Gathering]] novel by [[Mark Sumner]] |
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| <c>Prodigal Sorcerer</c> was introduced as a Wizard (only) in ''Alpha''; but, in ''[[Time Spiral]]'', it gained the Human racial creature type to complement its class creature type.
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| ==Nickname and etymology==
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| The card is nicknamed "'''Tim'''", after the "Tim the Enchanter", a wizard portrayed by John Cleese in ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Python_and_the_Holy_Grail Monty Python and the Holy Grail]'' and who had a talent for fire-based magic and damaging things.
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| The nickname "Tim" has inspired nicknames for other similar cards, such as <c>Rod of Ruin</c> ("Tim on a stick"), <c>Hermetic Study</c> ("Tim on a whim"), <c>Pirate Ship</c> ("Tim on a ship"), <c>Rootwater Hunter</c> ("Tim who can swim", "swim Tim", or "fish Tim"), <c>Thornwind Faeries</c> ("flying Tim"), and <c>Zuran Spellcaster</c> ("Zim" or "icy Tim").
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| In addition, like the term "ping", "Tim" may also be used as a verb to describe the act of dealing 1 damage to an object or player.{{Fact}}
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| ==''Planar Chaos''==
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| Introduced in ''[[Planar Chaos]]'' as a red [[timeshifted]] version of <c>Prodigal Sorcerer</c>, <c>Prodigal Pyromancer</c>, nicknamed "Tom" for unknown reasons, other than "Tom" was the design file name,<ref>{{DailyRef|mtgcom/daily/af156|Tom-Shifted: Red Tim finally exists!|[[Aaron Forsythe]]|February 2, 2007}}</ref> was thought to be more appropriate given the understanding of the [[Color Pie]] then.
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| The card was later reprinted in ''[[10th Edition]]'', thus cementing R&D's position on damage-dealing creatures in [[red]], not [[blue]].
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| ==References==
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