Melancholy
Planar Chaos 88 • common
- Set
- Planar Chaos
- Collector number
- 88
- Rarity
- Common
- Mana cost
- 2 generic mana black mana
- Type
- Enchantment
- Colors
- Black
- Artist
- Lars Grant-West
- Market price
- $0.08
What it does
Enchant creature
When this Aura enters, tap enchanted creature.
Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this Aura unless you pay black mana.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperLegal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Melancholy was released in 2007 as part of the Planar Chaos expansion for the Magic: The Gathering trading card game. The set was designed to explore an alternate reality where the color pie functioned differently, allowing mechanical abilities typically reserved for one color to appear in another. This specific card was created to provide black with a targeted enchantment that functioned as a pseudo-pacifism effect, reflecting the set's theme of color-shifted mechanics and familiar concepts appearing in strange new forms.
The artwork for Melancholy was commissioned from artist Greg Staples. Tasked with visualizing the card's theme of creeping, spirit-draining sorrow, Staples utilized a somber, muted palette to evoke a sense of inevitability and malaise. Upon its release, the card was noted by players for its atmospheric resonance with the mechanics of the game, becoming a memorable piece of the set's aesthetic identity that successfully translated the abstract concept of melancholy into a functional gameplay element.
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