Crystal Vein
Mirage 325 • uncommon
- Set
- Mirage
- Collector number
- 325
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Type
- Land
- Colors
- Colorless
- Artist
- Pat Lewis
- Market price
- $8.87
What it does
tap: Add colorless mana.
tap, Sacrifice this land: Add colorless mana colorless mana.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernNot legal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Crystal Vein was released in 1996 as part of the Mirage expansion for the Magic: The Gathering trading card game. Developed as the first set designed specifically to function as a self-contained drafting environment, Mirage drew heavy inspiration from African-inspired aesthetics and themes of elemental magic. The card was intended to provide players with a temporary mana acceleration tool, sacrificeable for two colorless mana, which introduced a strategic tension between immediate resource availability and long-term land stability.
The artwork was provided by Pat Lewis, who contributed several pieces to the Mirage set. His illustration for Crystal Vein utilizes a distinct style characterized by sharp, crystalline geometry and a subdued color palette to evoke the cold, subterranean nature of a mana-rich mineral deposit. Upon its release, the card was received as a functional utility land, eventually finding a stable place in various combo and aggressive deck archetypes that required a quick burst of mana to reach critical thresholds earlier than an opponent might expect.
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About Crystal Vein
Crystal Vein is a card in the Magic: The Gathering catalog on collecto.rs. Mirage 325 • uncommon. Catalog data is sourced from Scryfall. 1 collector on collecto.rs publicly track this card.
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