Magic: The Gathering

Sustenance

Mercadian Masques 278 • uncommon

Set: Mercadian Masques
Collector number: 278
Rarity: Uncommon
Mana cost: 1 generic mana green mana
Type: Enchantment
Colors: Green
Artist: Qiao Dafu
Market price: $0.28

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$0.28market price via TCGplayer · Aug 21, 2026$0.26 – $0.29 over the tracked period

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What it does

1 generic mana, Sacrifice a land: Target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Like the dryads, the forest itself willingly gives up some of its life for the sake of the future.

Formats

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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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Provenance

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Sustenance was released in 1999 as part of the Mercadian Masques expansion for the Magic: The Gathering trading card game. The set was inspired by the plane of Mercadia, a mercantilist world defined by its complex socio-economic structures and goblin-run markets, diverging from the traditional high-fantasy themes of earlier sets. This card, designed as a white enchantment, reflects the game's mechanics of resource management and lifegain prevalent in the late nineties.

The card features illustration by Heather Hudson, a prolific artist during the game's formative years who contributed a distinct painterly style to hundreds of cards. Her work on Sustenance focuses on the thematic elements of celestial or divine nourishment, aligning with the aesthetic direction of the Mercadian Masques set, which utilized a muted, earthy color palette to represent the unique atmosphere of the Mercadian capital.

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