Balance
Revised Edition 3 • rare
- Set
- Revised Edition
- Collector number
- 3
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana cost
- 1 generic mana white mana
- Type
- Sorcery
- Colors
- White
- Artist
- Mark Poole
- Market price
- $4.60
What it does
Each player chooses a number of lands they control equal to the number of lands controlled by the player who controls the fewest, then sacrifices the rest. Players discard cards and sacrifice creatures the same way.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernNot legal
- LegacyBanned
- VintageRestricted
- CommanderBanned
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerBanned
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Where it came from
Balance was originally released as part of the Alpha and Beta sets in 1993, later appearing in the Revised Edition in 1994. It was designed by Richard Garfield as part of the core foundation of Magic: The Gathering, intended to provide a powerful catch-up mechanism for players who had fallen behind in board development. The card creates an equilibrium by forcing all players to discard cards and sacrifice lands and creatures until everyone possesses the same number of each, representing a strategic 'reset' button.
The artwork was provided by illustrator Mark Poole, who contributed extensively to the early visual identity of the game. Poole utilized a classical, painterly style that emphasized the ethereal and balanced nature of the spell, fitting the high-fantasy aesthetic established during the game's inception. While the card is iconic, it is also notorious for its extreme power level, leading to its heavy restriction or outright banishment in most competitive formats due to the ease with which it can be abused to create lopsided game states.
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