Sands of Time
Visions 153 • rare
- Set
- Visions
- Collector number
- 153
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana cost
- 4 generic mana
- Type
- Artifact
- Colors
- Colorless
- Artist
- Paul Lee
- Market price
- $4.01
What it does
Each player skips their untap step.
At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player simultaneously untaps each tapped artifact, creature, and land they control and taps each untapped artifact, creature, and land they control.
"But once, with a magician's help, Time was stopped and Day stood still."— "Love Song of Night and Day"
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernNot legal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Sands of Time was released in 1997 as part of the Visions expansion for the Magic: The Gathering trading card game. Developed by Wizards of the Coast, the set was notable for being the first to be designed in collaboration with players from Japan, aiming to integrate global feedback into the game's evolving mechanics. The card itself, an artifact, was intended to introduce a strategic layer of temporal manipulation to gameplay, forcing players to manage their mana resources and untap phases in a more calculated, rhythmic fashion.
The card’s illustration was created by artist Christopher Rush, one of the most iconic figures in the game's early visual history. Rush utilized his signature style to evoke a sense of ancient, shifting power, capturing the ephemeral nature of time through a surreal, desert-inspired composition. While the card is often cited by players for its complex interaction with game rules, it remains a distinct example of the intricate, high-fantasy aesthetic that defined the Visions set and bolstered the game's growth during the late 1990s.
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