Porphyry Nodes
Planar Chaos 28 • rare
- Set
- Planar Chaos
- Collector number
- 28
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana cost
- white mana
- Type
- Enchantment
- Colors
- White
- Artist
- Alan Pollack
- Market price
- $0.78
What it does
At the beginning of your upkeep, destroy the creature with the least power. It can't be regenerated. If two or more creatures are tied for least power, you choose one of them.
When there are no creatures on the battlefield, sacrifice this enchantment.
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
Porphyry Nodes was released in 2007 as part of the Planar Chaos expansion for the Magic: The Gathering trading card game. The set was the second installment in the Time Spiral block, designed to explore an alternate reality where the history of the game's multiverse had unfolded differently. The card functions as a 'color-shifted' version of the classic white enchantment Pacifism or a mechanical nod to older cards like Drop of Honey, reflecting the set's thematic commitment to reinterpreting established gameplay tropes through different color identities.
The card's illustration was created by artist Christopher Moeller, who rendered the titular nodes with a stark, unsettling aesthetic that matches the card's disruptive impact on the battlefield. Moeller’s work in this period often emphasized textures and atmospheric lighting to ground the game's fantasy elements in a more tangible reality. Porphyry Nodes has since been recognized by players primarily as a niche utility card in white-based control decks, valued for its ability to maintain board parity in formats like Legacy and Cube drafts.
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