Chicken

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Template:Infobox type Chicken is an obsolete silver-bordered creature type and current celebration card creature type used for cards which depict a type of domesticated fowl.

History[edit]

Chicken debuted as a creature type in Unglued but was later removed as a type during the Grand Creature Type Update when its only cards were errataed to be Birds instead. However, it was later also included on a celebration card as a type for the non-legal limited Robot Chicken card.

Trivia[edit]

  • <c>Free Range Chicken</c> and <c>Chicken à la King</c> were first printed as a Chickens in Unglued and later re-printed as Birds in Unsanctioned.
  • <c>Chicken à la King</c> was errataed a second time following the introduction of the Noble type to be a Bird Noble. It was also the only indication of a race of humanoid sentient Chickens.
  • <c>Mesa Chicken</c> is the only former Chicken card to not be re-printed in Unsanctioned.
  • <c>Chicken Egg</c> originally spawned Chicken tokens called Giant Chicken but was errataed to spawn Bird tokens called Giant Bird.
  • There are only 6 known printed copies of <c>Robot Chicken</c> leaving the type effectively obsolete.

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