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Okay, so today we're going to talk all about scarecrows. So this is a creature type. And there are, I think, 38 of them, 39 if you're a cornered arena.

And so I'm going to talk about the history of scarecrow, sort of where they came from.

It is a creature type that has some popularity, but it's interesting.

It's got interesting history.

So let's get into it.

Okay, so the very first scarecrow showed up in the dark called scarecrow.

It was not, at the time, artifact creatures did not have a creature type.

So it was not, it was only retroactively made a scarecrow creature type.

But obviously it's called scarecrow. It was a top-down scarecrow.

So, scarecrow 5-2-2, artifact creature, 6 in tap, until end of turn, all damage done to you by flying creatures

is reduced to zero.

So the flavor is, it's a scarecrow, right?

It stops birds, and birds defined as anything that's flying.

So it just sort of protects you from flying things.

Now, five man for a two, two, that you have to spend six men and tap it, not particularly

strong, and it didn't see a lot of play.

I mean, it's just a pretty weak card, but it did introduce the concept of scarecrows.

The next scarecrow that shows up again wasn't at the time it came out labeled the scarecrow,

but in Portal Three Kingdoms, there's a card called Straw Soldiers, which is one in a blue for a one-three creature.

And it shows the scarecrow.

So it was later retroactively made a scarecrow.

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