Damping Sphere
Dominaria Remastered 377 • uncommon
- Set
- Dominaria Remastered
- Collector number
- 377
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Mana cost
- 2 generic mana
- Type
- Artifact
- Colors
- Colorless
- Artist
- Adam Paquette
- Market price
- $2.12
What it does
If a land is tapped for two or more mana, it produces colorless mana instead of any other type and amount.
Each spell a player casts costs 1 generic mana more to cast for each other spell that player has cast this turn.
A Thran relic, it has spent ten thousand years doing absolutely nothing.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerLegal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlLegal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Damping Sphere was first introduced in the Dominaria set in 2018 as a strategic response to powerful, mana-intensive decks in the Modern and Legacy formats of Magic: The Gathering. Its design serves as a restrictive artifact, imposing a tax on lands that produce multiple colors and limiting the number of spells a player can cast in a single turn. By penalizing explosive turn-sequences, the card became a staple sideboard option for players looking to regulate the game state against aggressive combo strategies.
The Dominaria Remastered version, released in 2023, features the same core mechanical identity while being part of a curated set designed to celebrate the history of the Magic plane of Dominaria. The illustration captures the functional, somewhat ominous aesthetic of an ancient artifact built to disrupt magical flow, aligning with the utilitarian role the card occupies in competitive play. Its inclusion in this set was intended to offer players access to a reliable, proven tool for competitive interaction within a thematic retrospective of the game’s long-standing lore.
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