Considering the art for both this and Tarpan both depict the creature as a horse, why didn't WotC just have their creature type be 'Horse' right from the start?
achilleselbow
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Wizards used to be pretty careless about creature types. A lot of old cards just have the card name as the creature type, making for some ridiculously specific 'types' such as "Summon Uncle Istvan".
land_comment
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Da Artic Fox.
HuntingDrake
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Early Magic Templating Was Weird Hipparion and Goblin Mutant worded the same drawback two different ways. This would have ramifications in Ice Age-Unhinged games that later Oracle updaters did not anticipate.
Lord_of_Tresserhorn
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I'm on a horse.
Yukikah
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
It's funny how I thought of this card when I first saw Concordia Pegasus, probably because I started Magic around Revised/Ice Age. It's also funny how much it shows things have changed. They took an uncommon with a drawback, removed said drawback, gave it flying, and made it a common... so yeah.
Gishra
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That horse is all like "Die for you!? Oh HELL no. I'm high-tailing it out of here!" Sure it may be bad, but its sense of self-preservation is stronger than about 98% of the creatures you can summon in this game.
car2n
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Well, whether or not this was a horse, whether or not it was any good; it is now dog food.
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Hipparion and Goblin Mutant worded the same drawback two different ways.
This would have ramifications in Ice Age-Unhinged games that later Oracle updaters did not anticipate.