Mishra's Research Desk
The Brothers' War 162 • uncommon
- Set
- The Brothers' War
- Collector number
- 162
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Mana cost
- 1 generic mana
- Type
- Artifact
- Colors
- Colorless
- Artist
- Matt Stewart
- Market price
- $0.27
What it does
1 generic mana, tap, Sacrifice this artifact: Exile the top two cards of your library. Choose one of them. Until the end of your next turn, you may play that card.
Unearth 1 generic mana red mana (1 generic mana red mana: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerLegal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlLegal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Mishra's Research Desk was released as part of the 2022 expansion The Brothers' War, a set designed to revisit the central conflict of Magic: The Gathering's lore between the artificer brothers Urza and Mishra. The card serves as a narrative artifact representing the darker, experimental side of Mishra's industrial efforts in his stronghold of Fallaji. It fits mechanically and thematically into the set's focus on artifact synergy and the scavenging of scrap to fuel larger machines.
The card's illustration was created by artist Titus Lunter, who adopted a moody, technical aesthetic consistent with the grim, war-torn atmosphere of the Brothers' War setting. By depicting the chaotic workspace of an artificer, the design emphasizes the frantic pace of the resource-gathering and experimentation that defined Mishra's descent into Phyrexian influence. It was received as a functional utility card within the set, capturing the flavor of a desperate inventor pouring over schematics.
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