Elephant

Elephant

 

Mammoth

 

Elephant
Creature Type
(Subtype for creature/kindred cards)
Beeble Scale	3
Statistics	82 cards 43.9% 1.2% 2.4% 35.4% 2.4% 6.1% 1.2% 3.7% 2.4% 1.2% 11 Elephant creation cards 9.1% 90.9% as of Alchemy: Karlov Manor
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type:"Elephant"

Elephant is a creature type describing large mammals of the pachyderm family. They have been seen on Rabiah, Rath and Dominaria. The anthropomorphic Loxodon have been seen on Mirrodin, Ravnica, Tarkir and Arcavios.

The first creature to be printed with the creature type Elephant wasn’t in Alpha (War Mammoth used to be a Mammoth), but Arabian Nights with War Elephant. The second card printed with the Elephant subtype wasn’t until 1996 (three years in) in Mirage. Aside from Khans of Tarkir, elephants were only within the green/white pairing. The first Loxodons appeared in Mirrodin. In general, anthropomorphic Elephants are white and wild elephants are green.

Regular Elephants

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Rabiah

Rabian elephants are trained and guided by humans for combat. They mainly charge the enemy, trampling them and breaking their ranks. A division of war elephants is known as elephantry.

Dominaria

The elephants from Vintara have four long horns on the side of their head, no trunk, and small tusks. They are used by the rhystic mages of north-eastern Jamuraa.

Rath

Armodons are elephants native to Rath. They are distinct from other elephants since they have two sets of tusks, two large horns on top of their head, and three or more horns on the base of their trunk. They are almost extinct.

Mammoths

Mammoths are elephantine animals with coats of thick brown hair and long, deeply curved tusks. They are found in Dominaria, Ulgrotha, and Ikoria. It was once its creature type before being obsoleted and became one once again on a test card.

Mastodons

M10 introduced the Mastodon as a species of Elephant (Siege Mastodon).

Tarkir

On Tarkir, Mastodons became extinct in the past, but foul forces of the Gurmag Swamp sometimes animate their decaying remains. The Sultai happily exploit such creatures but consider them inferior to their own necromantic creations.

Elephants on Tarkir allied with the Abzan Houses are also black (Ivorytusk Fortress)

Terastodons

Zendikar

Zendikar is home to terastodons, which are colossal elephants with nosehorns and multiple tusks.

Loxodons

A Selesnyan Loxodon

Loxodons are elephantine humanoids.

Arcavios

On Arcavios, the loxodons used to live in the city of Zantafar before becoming nomads. Occasionally, loxodons go to Strixhaven, the most elite school of mages in the multiverse. Some of them are part of the Lorehold college.

Ravnica

Most of the Ravnican Loxodons seek membership in the Selesnya Conclave, it being the most naturalistic of the guilds. Unlike their non-sentient elephant cousins, all Loxodons are white or white-green creatures rather than only green. They are tireless, patient artisans with a gift for stonework. It primarily falls to them to build the guild's magnificent, cathedral-like arboretum structures. Some fewer loxodon may also be found in the ranks of the Orzhov Syndicate.

Mirrodin

Loxodons were brought to Mirrodin via Memnarch's soul traps. In Mirrodin, they had as much metal on their bodies as any other beings and had a more clerical rather than a natural focus. Inhabiting the Razor Fields, these Loxodons believed in the Modest Truth, a code of absolute morality that was taken at face value and passed on from generation to generation. In arguments, Loxodons proved stubborn and nearly impossible to sway. Some Mirrans even doubted if a Loxodon was able to think in shades of grey. Loxodons wandered around the fields, dispensing justice in the form of physical punishment and offering atonement. These loxodon ascribed religious superiority to those born albino, believing them to be spiritually pure. Long ago, the Auriok attempted peace with the loxodons, and the leonin attempted war; neither succeeded.

As Mirrodin became New Phyrexia, the Machine Orthodoxy's invasion of the Razor Fields isolated the remaining loxodon. The last remaining living loxodons on the plane are the ones who accompany Ghalma the Shaper, who has settled in Bladehold.

Tarkir

Loxodon can also be found on Tarkir. Allied with the Temur Frontier, these are very different from the Loxodon of other planes, resembling mammoths and being disconnected from White mana, instead of being red and blue (Avalanche Tusker) in addition to green. However, Hamza is a typical green/white Loxodon, since he is a Krumar adopted by the Abzan Houses, probably born Temur.

Notable Elephants

Arcavios

• Losheel
• Quintorius Kand

Mirrodin

• Ghalma, the Shaper
  • Ghalma's Warden
• Malcator

Ravnica

• Bayul and Kel.
• Troslon

Tarkir

• Hamza

Other

• Frankie Peanuts
• Tusk

Non-canon

• Lulu

Gallery

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  Compleated New Phyrexian loxodon concept.

Tokens

Token Name	Color	Type Line	P/T	Text Box	Source	Printings
Elephant	Green	Creature — Elephant	3/3		Battery Bestial Menace Call of the Herd Elephant Ambush Elephant Guide Generous Gift Kazandu Tuskcaller Selvala's Charge Terastodon Trumpeting Herd
	Green	Creature — Elephant	*/*	This creature's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creature cards in its controller's graveyard.	Elephant Resurgence

Trivia

• In the Grand Creature Type Update the creature type Mammoth was incorporated in the creature type Elephant.
  • From that moment on, Elephant Graveyard regenerated only Elephants because Mammoths no longer existed as such.
  • The type reappeared on Domesticated Mammoth, a test card in the Mystery Booster set.
• Though in the real world "Loxodon" as a genus signifies a sliteye shark, the word "Loxodonta" is the genus for African elephants. This was the inspiration for the Magic name for humanoid elephants.
• Unhinged has two Elephant-folk which aren't Loxodons (Bosom Buddy and Frankie Peanuts).
• Mosstodon is a Plant Elephant.
• Metamorphic Wurm is a bizarre creature from Otaria, which can morph between the form of an elephant and that of a wurm. It is unknown which is their original form.
• Gift of Tusks is an instant that turns any creature into an 3/3 green Elephant.
• Unstable 's Shellephant an Elephant "and/or" a Turtle.