Soulherder

About

Soulherder is the name of a card from the Modern Horizons booster set from the collectible card game franchise Magic the Gathering. The card's artwork has received attention in Magic the Gathering internet social circles, most infamously in the subreddit r/magicthecirclejerking.

Origin

Soulherder was unveiled as a card in the booster set Modern Horizons on May 30th, 2019.^[1] According to the game's mechanics, the creature card becomes more powerful the more cards are exiled from the playing field. The artwork for the card was provided by renowned Magic the Gathering card artist Seb Mckinnon. The card would be featured as part of the Modern Horizons Art Series, alongside 53 other unique cards.

Spread

On June 1st, 2019 Reddit user SumNeuron posted a transparent cutout of Soulherder to r/magicthecirclejerking, a subreddit dedicated to satire involving the Magic the Gathering subreddit.^[2] The earliest use of Soulherder in meme format came from Tumblr user Planeswalker-Umbral-Musings in the format of an object labeling meme. ^[3]

Allegedly, after a charcoal painting of the card art was posted onto the Magic the Gathering subreddit on September 23rd, 2019,^[4] a large influx of shitposting in reference to Soulherder erupted onto the subreddit r/magicthecirclejerking, parodying posts involving drawing the creature. The shitposting ended up catching the attention of the entertainment website Epicstream, which documented the parody posts on the subreddit.^[5] Due to the large influx of Soulherder shitposting in the subreddit, posts involving Soulherder were eventually banned from the subreddit. On September 27th, 2019, Reddit user u/MrWildstar posted a drawn picture of cartoon cat Garfield depicted as the Soulherder to the subreddit r/imsorryjon, a subreddit dedicated to surrealist drawings of Garfield the Cat. ^[6] The post garnered 155 upvotes as of October 2019.

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