Mana Chains
Weatherlight 41 • common
- Set
- Weatherlight
- Collector number
- 41
- Rarity
- Common
- Mana cost
- blue mana
- Type
- Enchantment
- Colors
- Blue
- Artist
- Bryan Talbot
- Market price
- $0.24
What it does
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has "Cumulative upkeep 1 generic mana." (At the beginning of its controller's upkeep, that player puts an age counter on it, then sacrifices it unless they pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)
"The Lord of the Wastes must be destroyed; I am bound to this destiny by the chains of fate. If only Gerrard would see his part."— Sisay, journal
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernNot legal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperLegal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Mana Chains was released in 1997 as part of the Weatherlight expansion for the Magic: The Gathering trading card game. It was designed during a period when Wizards of the Coast was heavily focused on expanding the game's narrative through the Weatherlight Saga, a sprawling multi-year storyline following the crew of a legendary skyship. The card was created to represent magical binding effects within the game's mechanics, serving as an enchantment that limited a creature's ability to act while requiring a recurring mana payment to maintain.
The artwork for the card was created by artist Heather Hudson, a prominent illustrator for the game during the late 1990s. Hudson’s style for this piece leaned into the dark fantasy aesthetic common to the set, focusing on the visual manifestation of restraint and arcane energy. Upon release, Mana Chains was received as a situational utility card, recognized more for its specific role in niche control decks than for general competitive play, though it remains a nostalgic inclusion for collectors interested in the mechanical evolution of early blue-aligned enchantments.
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