Clown

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Clown
Creature Type
(Subtype for creature/kindred cards)
Beeble Scale	6
Statistics	13 cards 23.1% 53.8% 15.4% 7.7% 9 Clown creation cards 11.1% 44.4% 11.1% 11.1% 22.2% as of Duskmourn: House of Horror
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type:"Clown"

Clown is a creature class introduced for Unfinity. While initially largely acorn-stamped, the type appeared on eternal legal cards as well before debuting in a premier set with the release of Duskmourn: House of Horror.

Description

Clowns are comic entertainers who wear traditional comical costumes and exaggerated make-up, especially in a circus. In Unfinity all but one of the Clowns are Robots, but not all the Robots are Clowns. This helped to avoid the creepy clown trope.

Technical clowns have been portrayed in black-bordered Magic in factions like the Cult of Rakdos, which are entertainers visually modeled after harlequins. However, they are not typed as clowns.

Clowns are similar to Zombies, in that they can both be a race and a class.

History

After Unfinity, Clown reappeared in Duskmourn: House of Horror, where a subset of razorkins are represented as murder clowns.

Notable Clowns

Duskmourn

• The Jolly Balloon Man

Un-iverse

• Pietra

Tokens

Tokens marked with are created by Acorn cards.

Token Name	Color	Type Line	P/T	Text Box	Source	Printings
Clown Robot	White	Artifact Creature — Clown Robot	1/1		Assembled Ensemble Circuits Act Clown Car Clown Extruder Clowning Around Complaints Clerk Pietra, Crafter of Clowns Surprise Party Yawgmoth Merfolk Soul

Trivia

• The first clowns ever depicted in Magic were featured on Festival (The Dark) and Jester's Cap (Ice Age).
• Harlequins are clown-like figures and is an obsolete creature type that was removed via errata in the Grand Creature Type Update.