Spawn

Spawn
Creature Type
(Subtype for creature/kindred cards)
Statistics	1 card 100% 38 Spawn creation cards 47.4% 13.2% 13.2% 13.2% 5.3% 5.3% 2.6% as of Modern Horizons 3
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type:"Spawn"

Spawn is a blue and colorless creature type used for cards and tokens that depict any creature that is regarded as the offspring of some concept, place, character or creature.

History

The first card to bear the type was Elder Spawn in Legends, but the subtype was changed to Elemental in the Grand Creature Type Update. Spawning Pit from Darksteel still kept producing Spawn tokens.

It was later reinvented to depict a creature class of Eldrazi tokens created by several cards from Rise of the Eldrazi. Each of the three Eldrazi Titans (Ulamog, Emrakul and Kozilek) spawns its own "brood lineage." The three brood lineages are composed of Eldrazi Drones and subordinate spawns, each reflecting the image of its progenitor.^[1] No nontoken Spawn were printed and all were colorless 0/1 creatures that could be sacrificed to add . In the return block Battle for Zendikar, the Spawn were replaced by the more powerful Scion, which were the same but were 1/1s. The revisit to Eldrazi in Modern Horizons 3 returned to using Spawn.

Elder Spawn wasn't changed back to its original type until the September 2011 Rules Update of Innistrad. It remains the only card to be typed Spawn.

Storyline

Dominaria

The dreaded Elder Spawn are arcane spells gone awry, manifesting themselves in physical forms that most beings find unsettling or even upsetting.^[2]

Trivia

• Tombstone Stairwell originally produced tombspawn tokens, but this was changed to a Zombie token named Tombspawn with the digital release of Mirage on Magic Online.
• Cards that never had the Spawn subtype:
  • Deep Spawn
  • Infernal Spawn of Evil
  • Infernal Spawn of Infernal Spawn of Evil
  • Isleback Spawn
  • Pit Spawn
  • Vertigo Spawn
• Spawning Pool doesn't become a Spawn but a Skeleton.
• Spawning Bed doesn't produce Spawns but Scions.

Tokens

Token Name	Color	Type Line	P/T	Text Box	Source	Printings
Eldrazi Spawn	Colorless	Creature — Eldrazi Spawn	0/1	Sacrifice this creature: Add .	Awakening Zone Basking Broodscale Brood Birthing Chittering Dispatcher Corpsehatch Dread Drone Drowner of Truth // Drowned Jungle Drownyard Lurker Eldrazi Repurposer Eldrazi Skyspawner Emrakul's Hatcher[3] Emrakul's Messenger Essence Feed Glaring Fleshraker Glimpse the Impossible Growth Spasm Idol of False Gods Kozilek's Command Kozilek's Predator[4] Kozilek's Unsealing Malevolent Rumble Nest Invader Path of Annihilation Pawn of Ulamog Propagator Drone Rapacious One Skittering Invasion Skittering Precursor Spawn-Gang Commander Spawning Bed Spawning Breath Pawn of Ulamog[5] Unfathomable Truths Warped Tusker Writhing Chrysalis
Spawn	Colorless	Artifact Creature — Spawn	2/2		Spawning Pit
	Red	Creature — Spawn	3/3		The Lost and the Damned Magnus the Red

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