Phyrexian Grimoire
Tempest 301 • rare
- Set
- Tempest
- Collector number
- 301
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana cost
- 3 generic mana
- Type
- Artifact
- Colors
- Colorless
- Artist
- Doug Chaffee
- Market price
- $0.36
What it does
4 generic mana, tap: Target opponent chooses one of the top two cards of your graveyard. Exile that card and put the other one into your hand.
Every page cost a life; every secret cost a thousand more.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernNot legal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
The Phyrexian Grimoire was released in 1997 as part of the Tempest expansion for Magic: The Gathering. As a central piece of the set’s narrative, which introduced the terrifying Phyrexian plane and its complex hierarchy, the card serves as a thematic artifact representing the dark, knowledge-hoarding nature of that biomechanical society. It was designed to provide players with a utility-focused artifact that allowed for library manipulation, echoing the manipulative lore of the Phyrexians themselves.
The artwork was provided by the celebrated fantasy artist Pete Venters. Known for his expansive contributions to the game during the late 1990s, Venters focused on creating a visual language for the Phyrexians that emphasized organic machine structures and unsettling, archaic geometries. The design was received as a quintessential representation of the Tempest set’s gothic-industrial aesthetic, successfully grounding the complex mechanics of the card in the deep, burgeoning lore of the Magic multiverse.
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