Barl's Cage
Fifth Edition 352 • rare
- Set
- Fifth Edition
- Collector number
- 352
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana cost
- 4 generic mana
- Type
- Artifact
- Colors
- Colorless
- Artist
- Tom Wänerstrand
- Market price
- $0.39
What it does
3 generic mana: Target creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.
For a dozen years the cage had held Lord Ith, but as the Pretender Mairsil's power weakened, so did the bars.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernNot legal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Barl's Cage was originally introduced in the Antiquities expansion in 1994, centered on the narrative of the Brothers' War within the Magic: The Gathering lore. The card depicts a mechanical containment device designed by the artificer Barl, an associate of the brothers Mishra and Urza, reflecting the set's thematic focus on ancient, complex artifacts recovered from the ruins of Argoth.
The Fifth Edition printing, released in 1997, features the evocative illustration by Tom Wänerstrand. As part of the core set, this iteration utilized the updated card frame of the era, aiming to consolidate popular cards from previous expansions into a cohesive base product. Wänerstrand's work provides a stark, industrial interpretation of the card's function, emphasizing the cage as a restrictive, jagged piece of arcane technology.
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