Embargo
Mercadian Masques 77 • rare
- Set
- Mercadian Masques
- Collector number
- 77
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana cost
- 3 generic mana blue mana
- Type
- Enchantment
- Colors
- Blue
- Artist
- Nelson DeCastro
- Market price
- $0.97
What it does
Nonland permanents don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 2 life.
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
Embargo was released in 1999 as part of the Mercadian Masques expansion for the Magic: The Gathering trading card game. The set was designed to explore the setting of Mercadia, a plane characterized by political intrigue, merchant guilds, and an isolationist culture. Mechanically, the card was designed to reflect the set's themes of resource management and restrictive market control, forcing players to pay a tax to play non-artifact spells, thereby slowing the pace of the game.
The card was illustrated by Heather Hudson, a prolific artist for the game during this era known for her distinct, painterly style. In designing the visual, Hudson captured the claustrophobic and regulatory nature of an embargo through imagery that suggests heavy-handed bureaucratic interference. Upon its release, the card saw modest play in constructed formats as a niche tool for control decks looking to stifle aggressive strategies, eventually becoming a representative artifact of the set's slower, more deliberate design philosophy.
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