Thunderstaff
Commander 2013 267 • uncommon
- Set
- Commander 2013
- Collector number
- 267
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Mana cost
- 3 generic mana
- Type
- Artifact
- Colors
- Colorless
- Artist
- Cliff Childs
- Market price
- $0.28
What it does
As long as this artifact is untapped, if a creature would deal combat damage to you, prevent 1 of that damage.
2 generic mana, tap: Attacking creatures get +1/+0 until end of turn.
Jort the Thunder-Mad spent his life perfecting a way to harness the power of the heavens.
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
Thunderstaff was originally released as part of the Commander 2013 set for Magic: The Gathering, a product line designed to support the burgeoning Commander multiplayer format. The card itself was originally printed in the 2004 set Fifth Dawn, conceived by Wizards of the Coast design teams to provide artifacts that could influence board states during combat. It was brought into the 2013 preconstructed decks to offer players a repeatable, mana-efficient defensive tool capable of mitigating wide-scale damage in multi-opponent games.
The artwork for the card features an aesthetic consistent with the industrial and metallic motifs common to the plane of Mirrodin. Designed to function as a staff that pulses with electrical energy, the illustration aims to communicate the item's mechanical function of redirecting and dampening force. Upon its release, it was regarded by the player community as a niche but functional utility card, often appearing in decks that lacked access to white or blue color-based creature removal or prevention effects.
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