Builder's Bane
Mirage 160 • common
- Set
- Mirage
- Collector number
- 160
- Rarity
- Common
- Mana cost
- X mana X mana red mana
- Type
- Sorcery
- Colors
- Red
- Artist
- Charles Gillespie
- Market price
- $0.09
What it does
Destroy X target artifacts. Builder's Bane deals damage to each player equal to the number of artifacts they controlled that were put into a graveyard this way.
There is only so much a person may be buried with.
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
Builder's Bane was released in 1996 as part of the Mirage expansion for Magic: The Gathering. As a common-rarity sorcery, it was designed to serve as a niche, reactive tool within the set's meta, specifically targeting artifacts that players relied upon to build out their board states. The card reflects the broader design philosophy of the era, which often emphasized specific color-pie punishments for opposing strategies.
The card features artwork by Charles Gillespie, whose contributions to Mirage often leaned into the set's desert-themed, evocative aesthetic. Gillespie's illustration depicts a scene of mechanical destruction that captures the card's function of dismantling artifacts. Upon its release, it was regarded as a situational utility card, frequently utilized in sideboards to counter decks heavily reliant on artifact-based acceleration or permanent support.
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