City in a Bottle
Arabian Nights 60 • rare
- Set
- Arabian Nights
- Collector number
- 60
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana cost
- 2 generic mana
- Type
- Artifact
- Colors
- Colorless
- Artist
- Drew Tucker
- Market price
- $370.50
What it does
Whenever one or more other nontoken permanents with a name originally printed in the Arabian Nights expansion are on the battlefield, their controllers sacrifice them.
Players can't cast spells or play lands with a name originally printed in the Arabian Nights expansion.
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
City in a Bottle was released in 1993 as part of Arabian Nights, the first expansion set for the Magic: The Gathering trading card game. Developed by Richard Garfield and published by Wizards of the Coast, the set was inspired by the folk tales of One Thousand and One Nights. The card was designed to mechanically represent the theme of Djinn and Efreet imprisonment, serving as a powerful hoser that forces specific creature types out of play when it enters the battlefield.
The artwork for the card was illustrated by Jesper Myrvold, who contributed several pieces to the early expansion. His design leans into the mystical, claustrophobic aesthetic intended to evoke the lore of genies being sealed away in magical vessels. While the card is largely a niche functional piece, it is held in high regard by collectors for its status as a Rare from the foundational era of the game, representing the experimental and flavor-heavy design philosophy of Magic's earliest years.
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