Spawn

Spawn
Creature Type
(Subtype for creature/tribal cards)
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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 stock, idea, place, etc.

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.

The Spawn type was reinvented for tokens created by several cards from Rise of the Eldrazi. Each of the three colossal Eldrazi (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.

Elder Spawn wasn't changed back to its original type until the the September 2011 Rules Update of Innistrad.

Trivia

• Tombstone Stairwell used to produce tombspawn tokens, but this was changed to a Zombie token named Tombspawn in the Mirage online release.
• 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 Brood Birthing Corpsehatch Dread Drone Emrakul's Hatcher Essence Feed Growth Spasm Kozilek's Predator Nest Invader Pawn of Ulamog Rapacious One Skittering Invasion Spawning Breath Spawnsire of Ulamog
Spawn	Colorless	Artifact Creature — Spawn	2/2		Spawning Pit
	Red	Creature — Spawn	3/3		The Lost and the Damned Magnus the Red