Diminish
The List IMA-50 • common
- Set
- The List
- Collector number
- IMA-50
- Rarity
- Common
- Mana cost
- blue mana
- Type
- Instant
- Colors
- Blue
- Artist
- Eric Deschamps
- Market price
- $0.26
What it does
Target creature has base power and toughness 1/1 until end of turn.
Everything seems a little less ferocious when it's running from a house cat.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperLegal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Diminish was originally printed in the Magic: The Gathering set Mercadian Masques in 1999. It belongs to a cycle of blue sorcery spells from the era designed to manipulate creature power and toughness, reflecting the game's focus on combat trickery and tempo management during the late 1990s. The artwork, illustrated by Greg Staples, captures the ethereal and transformative nature of the spell, depicting a figure fading into nothingness to mirror the card's mechanical effect of reducing a creature's power to one.
The List is a curated selection of reprints that Wizards of the Coast includes in Set Boosters, intended to celebrate the game's long history by reintroducing older cards to new players. Diminish was included in this initiative to provide players with a functional reprint that bridges the aesthetic of classic Magic with modern distribution models. The card is regarded by players as a niche utility tool, primarily utilized in limited formats or specialized decks where lowering a threat's offensive capability is strategically valuable.
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About Diminish
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