Smokestack
Urza's Saga 309 • rare
- Set
- Urza's Saga
- Collector number
- 309
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana cost
- 4 generic mana
- Type
- Artifact
- Colors
- Colorless
- Artist
- Scott Kirschner
- Market price
- $11.49
What it does
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a soot counter on this artifact.
At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player sacrifices a permanent of their choice for each soot counter on this artifact.
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
Smokestack was introduced in the 1998 Urza's Saga expansion for Magic: The Gathering, a set centered around the complex artificer Urza and the technological advancement of his plane. The card serves as a hallmark of stax-style gameplay, a strategy designed to restrict an opponent's resources by forcing them to sacrifice permanents each turn. It emerged during an era where Wizards of the Coast was pushing the power level of artifacts, resulting in a card that remains a definitive, if polarizing, tool in competitive formats.
Artist Scott Kirschner illustrated Smokestack with a gritty, industrial aesthetic that aligns with the set's mechanical theme of oppressive factory-like production. His artwork depicts a looming, ominous structure belching smoke, effectively visualizing the card's function of gradually overwhelming the board state. Upon its release, the card was immediately recognized by competitive players for its ability to dictate the pace of the game, ultimately becoming a foundational element of the archetype known as Vintage Stax.
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