Skullclamp
Darksteel 140 • uncommon
- Set
- Darksteel
- Collector number
- 140
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Mana cost
- 1 generic mana
- Type
- Artifact
- Colors
- Colorless
- Artist
- Luca Zontini
- Market price
- $6.99
What it does
Equipped creature gets +1/-1.
Whenever equipped creature dies, draw two cards.
Equip 1 generic mana
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernBanned
- LegacyBanned
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Skullclamp was released in 2004 as part of the Darksteel expansion for the Magic: The Gathering trading card game. It was designed by the development team at Wizards of the Coast during a period when the game was experimenting with powerful, low-cost equipment cards. Intended to provide card-drawing utility for decks utilizing small creatures, the design team underestimated how easily players could exploit its low equip cost, which allowed for a cycle of sacrificing creatures to draw massive amounts of cards.
The card’s art was illustrated by Doug Chaffee, who rendered the grim, mechanical aesthetic characteristic of the Mirrodin block’s metal-themed world. Upon its release, Skullclamp proved to be fundamentally broken in competitive play, dominating tournament formats to the point that it was banned in almost every major constructed format within months. It remains a cautionary tale in game design regarding the unintended consequences of high-efficiency utility cards.
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