Swords to Plowshares
Mystery Booster 2 153 • uncommon
- Set
- Mystery Booster 2
- Collector number
- 153
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Mana cost
- white mana
- Type
- Instant
- Colors
- White
- Artist
- Sam Wolfe Connelly
- Market price
- $2.46
What it does
Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.
The smallest seed of regret can bloom into redemption.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernNot legal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlLegal
- HistoricBanned
- TimelessLegal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Swords to Plowshares first appeared in the Alpha edition of Magic: The Gathering in 1993, designed by Richard Garfield as an efficient white removal spell. Its name draws from the biblical passage in the Book of Isaiah, a thematic motif that the game's early creative team used to anchor the mechanics of creature exile within the flavor of transforming combatants into peaceful farmers.
The Mystery Booster 2 version, numbered 153, utilizes the iconic original illustration by Jeff A. Menges. His artwork has remained a definitive visual touchstone for the card for over three decades, celebrated by players for its simple, evocative composition that perfectly encapsulates the card’s mechanical identity: removing a powerful threat from the battlefield at the cost of providing the opponent with life.
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