Karn's Sylex
Dominaria United Promos 234s • mythic
- Set
- Dominaria United Promos
- Collector number
- 234s
- Rarity
- Mythic
- Mana cost
- 3 generic mana
- Type
- Artifact
- Colors
- Colorless
- Artist
- Adam Paquette
- Finish
- Foil
What it does
Karn's Sylex enters tapped.
Players can't pay life to cast spells or to activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.
X mana, tap, Exile Karn's Sylex: Destroy each nonland permanent with mana value X or less. Activate only as a sorcery.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerLegal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlLegal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Karn's Sylex was introduced in the 2022 Magic: The Gathering set Dominaria United. In the game's lore, the Sylex is a legendary, world-shaking artifact with a catastrophic history, originally used during the Brothers' War to devastate the plane of Dominaria. This card represents a pivotal moment in the narrative where the planeswalker Karn seeks to harness the ancient device’s destructive power to combat the returning Phyrexians.
The card was designed as a potent colorless utility piece, intended to provide players with board control and a way to mitigate high-mana strategies. The specific promo version, numbered 234s, features unique frame treatments characteristic of the Dominaria United promotion cycle. The art, realized by artist Dmitry Burmak, leans into the grim, high-stakes aesthetic of the storyline, emphasizing the artifact's volatile and ancient nature within the broader context of the Phyrexian invasion arc.
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