Alien

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Alien
Creature Type
(Subtype for creature/kindred cards)
Introduced	Unfinity
Last used	Final Fantasy
Beeble Scale	8
Scryfall Statistics
cards
token creation cards
artworks

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 including the Blorbians as a specific type of alien.

Aliens were initially planned to appear in an in-universe premier set for the first time in 2025's Edge of Eternities. However, in design it was decided to give each alien race in the set its own creature type rather than lump them all together.

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. Aliens also appeared in Final Fantasy, complete with Flying Saucers.

Notable Aliens

Un-iverse

• Ambassador Blorpityblorpboop
• Stephan

Universes Beyond

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		Creature — Alien	2/2		Adipose Offspring New New York North Pole Research Base
		Creature — Alien	0/0		Recon Craft Theta
Alien Angel		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		Creature — Alien Insect	1/1	Flying	Vrestin, Menoptra Leader
Alien Rhino		Creature — Alien Rhino	4/4		Fugitive of the Judoon
Alien Salamander		Creature — Alien Salamander	2/2	Islandwalk	The Sea Devils
Alien Warrior		Creature — Alien Warrior	2/2		Iraxxa, Empress of Mars
Osgood, Operation Double		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

• 
  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, Symbiote, Time Lord, and Tyranid crossover races are all technically aliens in their respective settings.