Gunk

Gunk
Mechanic
Introduced	Test card
Last used	Test card
Statistics	2 cards 50% 50%
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Gunk is an unreleased mechanic designed by Richard Garfield, that was later printed on test cards. Gunk is a colorless sorcery card with no mana cost that has cycling .

Description

Gunk cards are worthless cards that don't do anything but can be transferred to the opponent's deck.

Garfield designed Gunk to spellsling with at the 2008 Worlds in Memphis, Tennessee.

On test cards

Gunk appeared on the 2019 Mystery Booster test card Gunk Slug. It reappeared on the 2024 Mystery Booster 2 test card Fludge, Gunk Guardian

Rules

• Unlike a normal token, a token card doesn't cease to exist in a zone other than the battlefield. It's both a token and a card. It can move between zones any number of times and continues to exist for the rest of the game.
• If a token card is put into a hidden zone, you must use a supplementary token card with a Magic card back to represent it. Since these don't exist yet, you may need to be creative.
• For effects that look for or modify the creation of tokens, creating token cards isn't the same as creating tokens.
• A Gunk token card is a colorless Gunk sorcery named Gunk with cycling {4}. It has no mana cost, so you can't normally cast it. It has no spell abilities, so if you do find a way to cast it, it won't have any effect.
• Cycling means ", Discard this card: Draw a card."

Rulings

• A Gunk card is a colorless Gunk sorcery named Gunk with cycling {4}. It has no mana cost, so you can't normally cast it. It has no spell abilities, so if you do find a way to cast it, it won't have any effect.
• Cycling {4} means "{4}, Discard this card: Draw a card."
• A Gunk card's owner is the player who first shuffled it into their library.
• Gunk cards are not tokens. Treat Gunk cards just as one would treat regular cards. They can move between zones just like any other card and continue to exist for the duration of the game. At the end of the game, players should make sure to remove all Gunk cards from their deck.
• Players can represent Gunk cards using objects from outside the game so long as the game state remains clear and understandable to all players. They might need to get creative. Since Gunk cards are shuffled into players' libraries, those players should represent Gunk cards using objects that, while face down, are indistinguishable from other cards in their deck.