Random card #7: Court Homunculus

Court Homunculus is a common card from Conflux, the second expansion of the Alara block. This plane is divided in 5 "shards" in the beginning. This creature is from the Esper Shard, composed of white, blue and black color. In this shard, each permanent is an artifact card. Esper permanents are colored artifact, something that was only seen before with Transguild Courier from Dissenssion and Sarcomite Myr from Future Sight.

Transguild Courier is special since it's in every color and Sarcomite Myr was a hint to colored artifact in the Future Sight expansion. It was aimed to show colored artifact that will appears in Scars of Mirrodin. But it was a perfect fit for Esper, so colored was not used in Scars of Mirrodin.

This is an solid, aggressive creature, a good 1 drop creature, since you only need one another artifact to boost him. That's something that could be easily done with Esper card, an equipment that cost 0 for example (Bonesaw), but also card from Mirrodin, like artifact land. Nevertheless, it's quite fragile so be sure to do a early great amount of damages with him.

The art was made by Matt Cavotta, there are two little cute homoculus standing above small pylones and their cloths and cape make them look like taller.