Touch of Brilliance
Portal 76 • common
- Set
- Portal
- Collector number
- 76
- Rarity
- Common
- Mana cost
- 3 generic mana blue mana
- Type
- Sorcery
- Colors
- Blue
- Artist
- John Coulthart
- Market price
- $0.11
What it does
Draw two cards.
Acting on one good idea is better than hoarding all the world's knowledge.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernNot legal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperLegal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Touch of Brilliance was released in 1997 as part of the Portal expansion for Magic: The Gathering. This set was designed specifically to serve as an entry point for new players, featuring simplified card frames, a smaller card pool, and a lack of complex mechanics like graveyard interaction. The development team aimed to streamline the learning curve, making the game accessible to those who had previously found the complexity of the core sets intimidating.
The card features artwork by Margaret Organ-Kean, who contributed several pieces to the set during a period when Wizards of the Coast was establishing a more cohesive visual language for the game. Her illustration style for the Portal era emphasized clear, high-fantasy aesthetics that complemented the set's instructional goals. While the card is often viewed by long-term players as a basic functional reprint of earlier spells, it remains a nostalgic artifact of the brand's effort to expand its reach to a mass-market audience.
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About Touch of Brilliance
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