Skullclamp
The List CMD-260 • uncommon
- Set
- The List
- Collector number
- CMD-260
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Mana cost
- 1 generic mana
- Type
- Artifact
- Colors
- Colorless
- Artist
- Luca Zontini
- Market price
- $6.30
What it does
Equipped creature gets +1/-1.
Whenever equipped creature dies, draw two cards.
Equip 1 generic mana
The mind is a beautiful bounty encased in an annoying bone container.
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 originally released in the 2004 set Darksteel, designed by Erik Lauer. The card was intended as a functional reprint of an older, weaker artifact, but a late-stage development change increased its power significantly by switching its activated ability to grant +1/-1 instead of +1/+1. This adjustment made the card remarkably efficient at drawing cards by sacrificing low-toughness creatures, leading to its infamous dominance in competitive play and a subsequent banning in multiple formats shortly after its debut.
This particular version, numbered CMD-260, originates from The List—a curated selection of reprints inserted into Set Boosters starting in 2020. The artwork was provided by Luca Zontini, whose illustration captures the grim, utilitarian nature of the artifact. While the card's mechanical identity remains defined by its original Darksteel iteration, its presence in The List serves to reintroduce classic, high-impact cards to a new generation of players while maintaining the aesthetic integrity of their original printings.
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