Archmage's Charm
Breaking News 8 • rare
- Set
- Breaking News
- Collector number
- 8
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana cost
- blue mana blue mana blue mana
- Type
- Instant
- Colors
- Blue
- Artist
- Justine Mara Andersen
- Market price
- $1.63
What it does
Choose one —
• Counter target spell.
• Target player draws two cards.
• Gain control of target nonland permanent with mana value 1 or less.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlLegal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Archmage's Charm was released as part of the Breaking News bonus sheet for the Outlaws of Thunder Junction set in 2024. The card is a reimagining of a powerful spell originally featured in Modern Horizons, stylized here to evoke the aesthetic of vintage pulp crime fiction headlines and noir newspapers. This conceptual shift was designed to align with the set's western-heist thematic, trading traditional high-fantasy art for a punchy, mid-century tabloid visual language.
The art for this specific printing was commissioned from Justine Mara Andersen, an illustrator known for her distinct, graphic approach to genre fiction. Andersen utilized a bold, high-contrast palette and sharp linework to emphasize the card's function as a versatile, multi-modal instant. The Breaking News series was generally well-received by players for its departure from standard card art conventions, successfully grounding powerful magical effects within the gritty, monochromatic visual tropes of 1940s investigative journalism.
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