Kraken's Eye
Ninth Edition 302★ • uncommon
- Set
- Ninth Edition
- Collector number
- 302★
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Mana cost
- 2 generic mana
- Type
- Artifact
- Colors
- Colorless
- Artist
- Alan Pollack
- Finish
- Foil
What it does
Whenever a player casts a blue spell, you may gain 1 life.
Bright as a mirror, dark as the sea.
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
Kraken's Eye debuted in the Ninth Edition core set of Magic: The Gathering, released in 2005. As a core set, Ninth Edition served as a bridge for players, featuring a mix of reprints that rotated in and out of the game's competitive environment. The item is part of a cycle of five artifacts, one for each color of mana, designed to provide incremental life gain triggered by playing spells of a specific color, in this case, blue.
The illustration was crafted by artist Ron Spencer, a veteran creator known for his visceral and often surreal contributions to the game's early aesthetic. Spencer’s design captures the nautical and ominous theme of the card, utilizing the blue-tinted, watery imagery associated with the sea monster iconography of the Kraken. Upon its release, the card was viewed primarily as a limited-format inclusion, valued for its utility in maintaining life totals during slower, grindier games rather than for competitive play in constructed formats.
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