Throne of Bone
Revised Edition 279 • uncommon
- Set
- Revised Edition
- Collector number
- 279
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Mana cost
- 1 generic mana
- Type
- Artifact
- Colors
- Colorless
- Artist
- Anson Maddocks
- Market price
- $0.30
What it does
Whenever a player casts a black spell, you may pay 1 generic mana. If you do, you gain 1 life.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Throne of Bone was originally released in the 1993 Limited Edition Alpha set for Magic: The Gathering, designed by Richard Garfield to introduce a new form of strategic card play. As an artifact that allows players to gain life whenever a black spell is cast, it served as a reactive tool intended to counter the aggressive black-mana strategies prevalent in the game's early meta.
The card’s illustration was provided by artist Dan Frazier, whose work is iconic for defining the dark, gothic aesthetic of the game's earliest expansions. Like other artifacts from the Revised Edition, the design reflects a minimalist approach to card mechanics that prioritized high-impact situational utility, and it remains a recognizable relic from a formative era of fantasy tabletop gaming.
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