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==History== Alien first appeared on the ''[[Mystery Booster]]'' [[test card]] <c>Visitor from Planet Q</c>.<ref name="Release Notes">{{DailyRef|feature/mystery-booster-release-notes-2019-11-11|''Mystery Booster'' Release Notes|[[Eli Shiffrin]]|November 11, 2019}}</ref><ref>It is unclear if Planet Q represents either a separate plane or a planet within one of the known planes.</ref> The Visitor is an [[Instant Creature]], which is an unknown concept in the known [[Multiverse]]. ''[[Unfinity]]'' would later formally introduce alien as an [[eternal]] type with the introduction of aliens at [[Myra the Magnificent's Intergalactic Astrotorium of Fun]]. Aliens will appear in a premiere set for the first time in 2025's ''[[Space Opera]]'' set.<ref>{{EzTumblr|https://markrosewater.tumblr.com/post/724851390388781056|title=How much shared DNA is there between Unfinity and the unnamed outer space set?|August 5, 2023}}</ref> This will presumably mark the introduction of extraterrestrial life to the canon storyline of ''Magic'', several years after the type itself became eternal legal. ===Universes Beyond=== Alien is used heavily in the [[Universes Beyond]] set ''[[Doctor Who]]'' due to its setting.<ref>{{DailyRef|announcements/a-first-look-at-magic-the-gathering-doctor-who|A First Look at ''Magic: The Gathering'' - ''Doctor Who''|[[Jubilee Finnegan]]|July 28, 2023}}</ref> It was used as a catch-all creature type for species that didn't warrant their own creature type or as a modifier for species that resembled existing types. The exceptions to this were the [[Cyberman|Cybermen]], [[Dalek]]s, and [[Time Lord]]s, which were made into types. Species that used the Alien type include the [https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Adipose Adipose], [https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Atraxi Atraxi] (Alien [[Eye]]s), [https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Auton Autons], [https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Boekind Boekind], [https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Ice_Warrior Ice Warriors], [https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Judoon Judoon] (Alien [[Rhino]]s), [https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Kaled Kaleds], [https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Creature_(Kill_the_Moon) Lunar Hatchlings] (Alien [[Beast]]s), [https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Lupar Lupari] (Alien [[Dog]]s), [https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Memory_worm Memory Worms] (Alien [[Worm]]s), [https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Menoptera Menoptera] (Alien [[Insect]]s), [https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Reaper Reapers] (Alien [[Horror]]s), [https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Sea_Devil Sea Devils] (Alien [[Salamander]]s, although Sea Devils are native to Earth), [https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Silent Silent], [https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Sontaran Sontarans], [https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Star_whale Star Whales] (Alien [[Whale]]s), [https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Sycorax Sycorax], [https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/The_Flood_(The_Waters_of_Mars) The Flood] (Alien [[Zombie]] Horrors), [https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/The_Foretold The Foretold] (Alien Zombie), [https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Thijarian Thijarians], [https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Time_Beetle Time Beetles] (Alien [[Insect]]s), [https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Vashta_Nerada Vashta Nerada] (Alien Horrors), [https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Weeping_Angel Weeping Angels] (Alien [[Angel]]s), and [https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Zygon Zygons] (Alien [[Shapeshifter]]s). The type reappeared in ''[[Fallout]]'' as a token generated by <c>Recon Craft Theta</c>, representing the [https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Zetan Zetan] species.
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