Drain the Well
Eventide 121 • common
- Set
- Eventide
- Collector number
- 121
- Rarity
- Common
- Mana cost
- 2 generic mana black mana or green mana black mana or green mana
- Type
- Sorcery
- Colors
- Black · Green
- Artist
- Warren Mahy
- Market price
- $0.21
What it does
Destroy target land. You gain 2 life.
Trows have learned that it's not wise to eat cinders without a bucket or two of water nearby.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperLegal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Drain the Well was released in 2008 as part of the Eventide set, the second expansion in the Shadowmoor block for Magic: The Gathering. The set was designed to explore the concept of a world transitioning into eternal night, utilizing mechanics like 'persist' to emphasize themes of cyclical decay and regeneration. As a black-aligned common card, it served as a functional piece of removal meant to interact with the block's graveyard-focused mechanics.
The card features illustration by Terese Nielsen, a prominent artist whose work defined much of the aesthetic for this era of the game. Nielsen employed her signature style to capture the somber, surrealist tone of the Shadowmoor plane, visually representing the card's function of exiling a creature from a graveyard. Upon its release, the card was received as a straightforward utility tool, valued primarily for its specific ability to permanently remove problematic creatures from an opponent's resources.
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