![]() A leech is a leech, even when it's a lizard. It was in 2000's "Invasion" set that leeches made their most major appearance in the setting, with a single leech for each of the five main mana colors, which they drained parasitically and stored in their colorful, crystalline body growths.Īndradite leech, the black-mana sucker, was probably the least leech-like of the bunch, more like some devilish reptile, but we won't fault him for that. I like how their anteriors look a little like distorted animal skulls, though with long clumps of needles where a "nose" would be. These rather interesting looking creatures resemble arthropods much more closely than annelids, though annelids with clawed legs and armored plates aren't uncommon in the ocean. Years later, in 1998, the "Mana Leech" would debut with the rarely-used "worm" card type, but has since been retconned into a proper leech. The land leeches hearken back to Magic's early years, when many creatures were entirely unique, had little to no special abilities and weren't really part of any grander storyline, but kind of represented every last little monster the designers could come up with for a hypothetical sorceror to conjure up. The simple and straightforward "Land Leeches" are something that exists anyway, and a great number look exactly like these two. I guess I just kind of forgot about this one, despite the fact that it represents one of my favorite animals, and one I've already reviewed in detail for real! Luckily, a number of other leeches have been added to the game's canon in the half-decade that this page has been gathering dust, and of course, we're going to add them on!įirst, let's review what was once the only leech themed card in the entire game. I upload this review nearly five long years after I first reviewed a handful of my favorite Magic creature types, though I actually wrote this review only shortly after I wrote up the Slugs. A Magic: The Gathering Creature Review by Jonathan Wojcik
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