Skullclamp
Star Trek Commander 498 • rare
- Set
- Star Trek Commander
- Collector number
- 498
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana cost
- 1 generic mana
- Type
- Artifact
- Colors
- Colorless
- Artist
- Anna Pavleeva
What it does
Equipped creature gets +1/-1.
Whenever equipped creature dies, draw two cards.
Equip 1 generic mana
Ocular implants feed a constant stream of subspace signals into the brain via the optic nerve.
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 introduced in the 2004 Magic: The Gathering set Darksteel. Designed by Erik Lauer, the card quickly became infamous within the game's competitive history for its extreme power level, as its low mana cost and efficient card-drawing ability led to it being restricted or banned in nearly every constructed format shortly after its release. It remains a definitive example of a development mistake that fundamentally shifted how developers balanced equipment cards for years to follow.
The version from the Star Trek Commander set, numbered 498, is a thematic reprint of this historic card. While the original featured art by Doug Chaffee depicting a grisly piece of Phyrexians hardware, this iteration adapts the card to the Star Trek universe, maintaining the functional mechanics of the original while utilizing the visual aesthetic and iconic imagery associated with the franchise's expansive science fiction lore.
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