Ivory Tower
The Brothers' War Retro Artifacts 23 • uncommon
- Set
- The Brothers' War Retro Artifacts
- Collector number
- 23
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Mana cost
- 1 generic mana
- Type
- Artifact
- Colors
- Colorless
- Artist
- Jason Chan
- Market price
- $0.22
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.
Valuing scholarship above all else, the inhabitants of the Ivory Tower reward those who sacrifice power for knowledge.
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 released in 1994 as part of the Antiquities expansion for the Magic: The Gathering trading card game. Designed during the game's infancy, the card quickly became notorious for its influence on tournament play, as its ability to provide significant life gain each turn forced players to rethink their resource management and hand size strategies. Its inclusion in The Brothers' War Retro Artifacts set in 2022 served as a tribute to this legacy, featuring a serialized schematic-style frame that evokes the aesthetic of early game design documents.
The artwork for this specific version was rendered by Jason Chan, who brings a polished, modern illustrative style to the classic artifact. Chan’s depiction focuses on the tower as a monolithic, imposing structure, balancing the card’s historical reputation for dominance with a clean, contemporary visual language. The set, which highlights key artifacts from the game’s narrative history, frames this reprint as both a functional utility for players and a nostalgic nod to the mechanical foundations of the early nineties meta.
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