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Krenko's Guide to Creature Types: Phelddagrif

Art by Matt Cavotta

What is a Phelddagrif (flavorfully)?

When a Griffon mates with a horse, it creates a Hippogriff, a mythological joke of a creature too silly to exist. One day, back in Dominaria’s Ice Age, a single Griffon got so absolutely blackout drunk that it mated with a hippopotamus. This hippo then gave birth to the legendary Phelddagrif, meaning field-griffon (Hippogriff means horse-griffon, and hippopotamus means river horse.) The Phelddagrif was a loving and kind being that healed people, invented the game of Magic: the Gathering, and had many babies. In modern times, Dominaria still has a small Phelddagrif population.

Also, I made all of that up. There’s no lore for these cards. They’re just winged hippos, named after the game’s creator, Richard “Garfield, Ph. D.”

What is a Phelddagrif (mechanically)?

I’m just going to post them right here, so you can see how tightly they’re related. The latter is a clear homage to the former, with the same mana cost, power and toughness as well as abilities clearly inspired by the original’s.

Can I make a Phelddagrif deck?

While there’s only two of the things, one’s Legendary and a classic Group Hug commander. Give everybody hippos and card draw and life! Be kind! Make friends! Figure out how to betray them later. A 4/4 isn’t the best choice for commander damage, but Flying and Trample both help, and there’s plenty of alternate win conditions like Approach of the Second Sun and Thassa’s Oracle.

Is Phelddagrif a good creature type?

Phelddagrif is a joke creature type. The story goes that the team had a running gag that with all the weird creatures they were making for the game they’d eventually have a flying purple hippo, and after attempting to use Phelddagrif as the name for the woman who would be called Freyalise and being told it was too silly, they decided to make the Phelddagrif the flying purple hippo. The second is merely a callback to the original joke. Making it a creature type for the second is silly - it should probably just be a hippo- but it’s isolated on two cards and it’s clearly meant as a gag, so I’m not going to complain.

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Happy Purple Hippo

It's been a while since I drew fanart. This is from Magic: the Gathering's Pheldagriff, mostly known for a play style called 'Group Hug'. Sounds nice doesn't it? It's a plan where you give gifts to opponents in exchange for a little bonus on your end -it involves a lot of bargaining and having your opponents rather attack each other as you're helpful to them. Discworld's Vetinari would enjoy this.

Here's the art as it would look like on a modern card: