What is the status of Fruitcake elemental?
In typing up the question, I found the answer.   This was a special promotional card given to finishers of the great design search and some of WotC business partners.
http://archive.wizards.com/Magic/magazine/article.aspx?x=mtgcom/arcana/1240

There are a number of such cards that exist:
http://magiccards.info/hho/en.html

They appear to be quite expensive, even if they are not playable.