Ivory Cup
Fourth Edition 327 • uncommon
- Set
- Fourth Edition
- Collector number
- 327
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Mana cost
- 1 generic mana
- Type
- Artifact
- Colors
- Colorless
- Artist
- Anson Maddocks
- Market price
- $0.19
What it does
Whenever a player casts a white spell, you may pay 1 generic mana. If you do, you gain 1 life.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Ivory Cup was first introduced in the Alpha set of Magic: The Gathering in 1993, representing one of five cycle cards designed to provide life gain based on specific color alignment. Created during the game's nascent period, these artifacts were intended to offer players a way to stabilize their health totals in an environment where resource management was still being defined. The Fourth Edition printing, which featured the original artwork by Anson Maddocks, maintained the card's status as an uncommon staple for early players.
Anson Maddocks, one of the original illustrators for the game, provided the visual direction for the Ivory Cup, utilizing a gothic and slightly surreal aesthetic that defined much of the early card pool. His design focused on the symbolic imagery of the cup to convey its mechanical function of gathering life energy. While the card is often viewed through the lens of nostalgia today, it was initially received as a functional, if situational, tool in the white-aligned control decks of the early nineties.
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