Mental Note
Judgment 46 • common
- Set
- Judgment
- Collector number
- 46
- Rarity
- Common
- Mana cost
- blue mana
- Type
- Instant
- Colors
- Blue
- Artist
- Bradley Williams
- Market price
- $7.94
What it does
Mill two cards.
Draw a card.
Some minds are more open than others.
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
Mental Note was released in 2003 as part of the Judgment expansion for the Magic: The Gathering trading card game. The set served as the conclusion to the Odyssey block, which focused heavily on the mechanics of the graveyard and resource management. This particular card was designed to function as a blue instant that allowed players to mill themselves, an essential strategy for activating threshold abilities which were central to the gameplay identity of the set.
The card features artwork by the illustrator Scott M. Fischer. His style for the piece employs a distinct, surrealist aesthetic that captures the abstract nature of memory and mental processing. Within the competitive community of the time, the card was received as a highly efficient utility piece, eventually becoming a staple in various formats where manipulating the graveyard is a primary path to victory.
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