Barbed Sextant
Ice Age 312 • common
- Set
- Ice Age
- Collector number
- 312
- Rarity
- Common
- Mana cost
- 1 generic mana
- Type
- Artifact
- Colors
- Colorless
- Artist
- Amy Weber
- Market price
- $0.23
What it does
1 generic mana, tap, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color. Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernNot legal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperLegal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
The Barbed Sextant was released in 1995 as part of the Ice Age expansion for the Magic: The Gathering trading card game. Developed by Wizards of the Coast, the set was designed to introduce a colder, more isolated aesthetic to the game, focusing on survival mechanics and the thematic influence of a perpetual, magically induced winter. This card was intended to provide a low-cost utility tool for players, allowing them to sacrifice it to filter mana, which was a common design trope for artifacts of that era.
The illustration for the card was created by artist Heather Hudson, who contributed numerous pieces to the early Magic: The Gathering sets. Her design leaned into the gritty, artifact-heavy visual language typical of the game's mid-nineties aesthetic. While the card is a functional relic rather than a centerpiece of the set, it remains a recognized example of the utilitarian design philosophy that characterized the early expansions of the game, valued by collectors today as a snapshot of the mechanics prevalent in 1995.
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