Doomsday
Weatherlight 66 • rare
- Set
- Weatherlight
- Collector number
- 66
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana cost
- black mana black mana black mana
- Type
- Sorcery
- Colors
- Black
- Artist
- Adrian Smith
- Market price
- $8.66
What it does
Search your library and graveyard for five cards and exile the rest. Put the chosen cards on top of your library in any order. You lose half your life, rounded up.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernNot legal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlLegal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerBanned
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Where it came from
Released in 1997 as part of the Weatherlight expansion for Magic: The Gathering, Doomsday occupies a storied place in the game's history. It was designed during a period when Wizards of the Coast was actively experimenting with high-risk, high-reward card mechanics. The card's ability to essentially replace a player's entire library with a five-card pile reflects the set's focus on complex, narrative-driven gameplay that rewards strategic foresight and careful resource management.
The artwork was commissioned from illustrator Adrian Smith, whose gritty, visceral style helped define the darker aesthetic of the late nineties Magic sets. Smith intended to capture a sense of impending cosmic finality, utilizing a muted, somber palette to match the card's function as a last-ditch effort for victory. While initially viewed as a niche card due to its challenging activation cost and complexity, it eventually gained legendary status in competitive formats for its ability to enable intricate, deterministic winning combos.
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