Charcoal Diamond
Foundations Commander 248 • common
- Set
- Foundations Commander
- Collector number
- 248
- Rarity
- Common
- Mana cost
- 2 generic mana
- Type
- Artifact
- Colors
- Colorless
- Artist
- Lindsey Look
- Market price
- $0.27
What it does
This artifact enters tapped.
tap: Add black mana.
The essence of night to harden the soul.
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
Charcoal Diamond is a mana-producing artifact that first appeared in the Mirage expansion in 1996, later appearing as part of the Foundations Commander set. It was designed to provide players with a reliable, albeit delayed, source of colored mana, tapping into the mechanical identity of artifacts that help players ramp their resources in the early stages of a game.
The card’s illustration is emblematic of the early Magic: The Gathering aesthetic, which emphasized high-fantasy, mystical imagery to ground the game's arcane mechanics. Over the decades, it has remained a staple in the Commander format, favored by players for its efficiency and simplicity as a ramp tool that fits into almost any deck running black mana.
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