Ivory Tower
The Brothers' War Retro Artifacts 86 • uncommon
- Set
- The Brothers' War Retro Artifacts
- Collector number
- 86
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Mana cost
- 1 generic mana
- Type
- Artifact
- Colors
- Colorless
- Artist
- Irina Nordsol
- Market price
- $0.27
What it does
At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain X life, where X is the number of cards in your hand minus 4.
"Ringed by white stone, Terisia was a city of scholarship and knowledge, where magic promised a brighter future to a world devoured by artifice."— *The Antiquities War*
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernNot legal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlLegal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Ivory Tower was originally introduced in the 1994 Antiquities expansion for Magic: The Gathering. Designed as a defensive artifact to gain life based on the size of a player's hand, it quickly became a staple of early competitive play due to its efficiency in controlling the pace of games. The card's mechanics famously necessitated the errata and rebalancing of several formats during the mid-nineties as players leveraged its life-gain potential in blue-white control decks.
The version from The Brothers' War Retro Artifacts set features an illustration by Irina Nordsol, created to evoke the aesthetic of a classic, weathered relic from the game's deep lore. This printing utilizes the 'schematic' frame design intended to celebrate the engineering history of the game's fictional setting. Upon its release in 2022, the retro-frame treatment was well received by the community for successfully blending contemporary card quality with the nostalgic visual language of the nineties.
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