Power Sink
Collectors' Edition 73 • common
- Set
- Collectors' Edition
- Collector number
- 73
- Rarity
- Common
- Mana cost
- X mana blue mana
- Type
- Instant
- Colors
- Blue
- Artist
- Richard Thomas
- Market price
- $4.87
What it does
Counter target spell unless its controller pays X mana. If that player doesn't, they tap all lands with mana abilities they control and lose all unspent mana.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernNot legal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperLegal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Power Sink was originally introduced in the Alpha and Beta sets of Magic: The Gathering in 1993, representing the game's early focus on reactive spellcasting. As a counterspell that scales in power based on the mana spent, it became a staple of early blue control archetypes, designed by Richard Garfield to introduce tension between player turn-taking and resource management.
The Collector's Edition version, released in 1993, was produced as a non-tournament-legal display set for collectors. It features gold-bordered backs and square corners, distinguishing it from standard game pieces. While the artwork by Quinton Hoover remained true to the original, the set was intended as a commemorative archive of the game's foundational cards rather than for competitive play, and it has since gained recognition for its distinct printing style.
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