Price of Progress
Premium Deck Series: Fire and Lightning 18 • uncommon
- Set
- Premium Deck Series: Fire and Lightning
- Collector number
- 18
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Mana cost
- 1 generic mana red mana
- Type
- Instant
- Colors
- Red
- Artist
- Richard Kane Ferguson
- Finish
- Foil
What it does
Price of Progress deals damage to each player equal to twice the number of nonbasic lands that player controls.
Man versus nature is not a fair fight.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernNot legal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperBanned
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Price of Progress was originally printed in the 1998 expansion Exodus. It was designed as a high-impact red sorcery intended to punish players who utilized non-basic lands, a mechanic that grew increasingly common as the game evolved. The card reflects the aggressive design philosophy of the era, where spells were crafted to force quick resolutions in games by penalizing greed in land-base construction.
This specific printing comes from the 2010 Premium Deck Series: Fire and Lightning, a pre-constructed product curated by Wizards of the Coast to highlight red’s fast, damage-oriented playstyle. The art for this version retains the iconic original illustration by Brian Snoddy, which depicts the volatile nature of industrial advancement. The reprint was well-received by players for providing a foil version of a legacy-staple card, cementing its utility in eternal formats.
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