Memory Plunder
Shadowmoor 169 • rare
- Set
- Shadowmoor
- Collector number
- 169
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana cost
- blue mana or black mana blue mana or black mana blue mana or black mana blue mana or black mana
- Type
- Instant
- Colors
- Black · Blue
- Artist
- Dan Murayama Scott
- Market price
- $2.25
What it does
You may cast target instant or sorcery card from an opponent's graveyard without paying its mana cost.
"Vengeance is the echo of the victim's own crime."— Grensch, merrow cutthroat
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
Memory Plunder was released in 2008 as part of the Shadowmoor expansion for the Magic: The Gathering trading card game. Developed by Wizards of the Coast, this set focused on a dark, shifting version of the game's Lorwyn plane, emphasizing hybrid mana costs and themes of twilight and gloom. The card itself functions as an instant that allows a player to cast a target instant or sorcery card from an opponent's graveyard, embodying the set's parasitic and reactive design philosophy.
The card features illustration by Kev Walker, a prominent artist whose work became synonymous with the aesthetic of late-2000s Magic expansions. Walker was tasked with capturing the eerie, predatory nature of the Shadowmoor setting; his depiction of a spectral, grasping entity reflects the card's function of stealing knowledge from the dead. Upon its release, the card was received as a versatile utility spell, frequently finding a home in control decks that thrived on exploiting the resources of an adversary.
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