Arcbound Ravager
Darksteel 100 • rare
- Set
- Darksteel
- Collector number
- 100
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana cost
- 2 generic mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- Colorless
- Artist
- Carl Critchlow
- Market price
- $19.47
What it does
Sacrifice an artifact: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Modular 1 (This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it. When it dies, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.)
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlLegal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Arcbound Ravager was released in 2004 as part of the Darksteel set, the second expansion in the Mirrodin block for the Magic: The Gathering trading card game. It was designed to anchor the artifact-heavy themes of the Mirrodin environment, utilizing the modular mechanic to allow players to redistribute +1/+1 counters upon the destruction of artifact creatures. This ability made it a cornerstone of high-level competitive play, where it became a defining element of the Affinity deck archetype, forcing significant shifts in the tournament meta at the time of its release.
The card’s visual identity was crafted by illustrator Carl Critchlow, whose work is characterized by a distinctive, gritty approach to fantasy art. Critchlow was tasked with visualizing a creature composed of scavenged metal parts, emphasizing the theme of modular construction prevalent in the set's design. The reception was marked by its immense power level, leading to its eventual restriction and banning in various formats as players discovered how efficiently it could be paired with other artifact-synergy cards to dominate the board state.
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