Dog

Dog (previously Hound) is a creature type used for cards that depict carnivorous domestic canids closely related to the gray wolf, as well as sapient dogfolk. Their appearance is bred in many varieties. For gaming reasons, Wolves, Coyotes, Jackals, and Foxes are kept separate. Dogs appear in all colors, but are most common in white, red, and green.
==History==
The first creature with the type Dog was <c>Snow Hound</c> in Ice Age. The first creature to bear the type Hound was <c>Ghost Hounds</c> in Homelands (though the <c>Hurr Jackal</c> from Arabian Nights and <c>Snow Hound</c> from Ice Age, were later issued errata to become Hounds as well). 
Hyenas were made Hounds in the Grand Creature Type Update, but this was reverted in the Update from the Grand Update, probably for taxonomic reasons. Jackals were reinstated as a creature type with the release of Amonkhet.
In Core Set 2021 Hound was changed to Dog. Mark Rosewater previously had argued numerous times with Creative to apply the change. He argued that a hound is a type of dog much like a poodle is a type of dog. He stated that all hounds are dogs but not all dogs are hounds. The Dog versus Hound debate was referenced earlier on the Unhinged card <c>B-I-N-G-O</c> and on the Mystery Booster test card <c>Ruff, Underdog Champ</c>.
In the creature update, each Hound creature card received errata to replace that subtype with Dog. Those cards kept their other subtypes. Similarly, cards that became Hounds or created Hound tokens received errata to replace that one word with Dog. No other cards received errata to become Dogs.
==Storyline==
===Innistrad===
There are regular (<c>Cathar's Companion</c>, <c>Thraben Purebloods</c>), elemental (<c>Pyre Hound</c>, <c>Hound of Griselbrand</c>), zombie (<c>Hound of the Farbogs</c>, <c>Thraben Foulbloods</c>), and demonic () hounds.
===Ixalan===
The Legion of Dusk uses hounds as camp keepers (<c>Encampment Keeper</c>).
===Kamigawa===
The Emperors of Kamigawa traditionally keep and train Akita dogs. The sitting emperor's pet dog is Yoshimaru, and in ancient times, Takeshi Konda owned a dog named Isamaru. 
===Lorwyn-Shadowmoor===
Cuffhounds are large canines employed by Lorwyn elven hunters as trackers and attack dogs. Cuffhounds can follow a scent for hundreds of miles.Cory J. Herndon and Scott McGough (2007), "Lorwyn", Wizards of the Coast.
 
Demonic <c title="hounds">Hollowborn Barghest</c> appear when Shadowmoor is an ascendance.
===Phyrexia===
The Phyrexian <c>Hollow Dogs</c> showed up in New Phyrexia <c title="as well">Mortis Dogs</c>.
===Rath===
Vampire <c title="Hounds">Vampire Hounds</c> are used as watchdogs in Stronghold. <c>Mossdog</c>s inhabited the Skyshroud Forest.
===Ravnica===
The Boros Legion features <c title="mastiffs">Boros Mastiff</c>.
The Golgari guild of Ravnica features <c title="Mossdogs">Greater Mossdog</c>, plant hounds.
The Rakdos guild of Ravnica features elemental <c title="hounds">Rakdos Ragemutt</c>.
Nightmare <c title="hounds">Banehound</c> live in the undercity of Ravnica.
===Tarkir===
====Ainok====
Ainok are sapient, humanoid Dog folk of Tarkir. Affiliated with the Abzan Houses and the Temur Frontier, they are a highly variable species, mirroring actual canine species and breeds. The Abzan Ainok, resembling jackals, are the original inhabitants of the desert and experienced in sand-based magic, having taught the Abzan how to survive in the desert; they prefer to live on the fringes of human-dominated society. 
Temur Ainok resemble Tibetan Mastiffs. Like the Abzan Ainok, these are the original inhabitants of their environment, the Qal Sisma mountains. Eager to fight for any reason, they enjoy carnage for carnage's sake, and blood-crazed Ainok may even devour chunks of flesh from a fallen opponent, though such is considered an embarrassing lack of self-control. Well established and trusted among Temur families and sharing the same rights and responsibilities, some nonetheless feel resentment towards human domination in the clan, and the veteran Baihir Torn-Of-Ear and the semi-Mardu-affiliated Kharkhel seek to murder the khan himself to achieve dominance.
===Theros===
The Cerberi of Theros are two-headed (<c>Two-Headed Cerberus</c>) or three-headed (<c>Underworld Cerberus</c> and <c>Wildfire Cerberus</c>) hounds.
===Ulgrotha===
The <c>Ghost Hounds</c> are intangible dogs that haunt Ulgrotha in and around the Dark Barony.
===Zendikar===
Hellhound packs roam the Spikefields (<c>Akoum Hellhound</c>).
==Notable Dogs==
==Trivia==
*<c>Animal Sanctuary</c> is a land that can put +1/+1 counters on dogs.
*<c>Snow Hound</c> and <c>Zodiac Dog</c> were the only legal cards to have been printed with the creature type Dog before the creature type was officially changed from Hound to Dog.
==Tokens==
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==References==