Vivisection
Mirrodin Besieged 38 • common
- Set
- Mirrodin Besieged
- Collector number
- 38
- Rarity
- Common
- Mana cost
- 3 generic mana blue mana
- Type
- Sorcery
- Colors
- Blue
- Artist
- Anthony Francisco
- Market price
- $0.13
What it does
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Draw three cards.
Phyrexians research with the grace of surgeons and the finesse of butchers.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerLegal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperLegal
- BrawlLegal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Vivisection was released in 2011 as part of the Mirrodin Besieged expansion for the Magic: The Gathering trading card game. This set depicted the central conflict of the Mirrodin plane, where the metallic world was being corrupted and physically transformed by the infectious Phyrexian oil. As a sorcery spell that requires the player to sacrifice a creature to draw three cards, the card reflects the grim, utilitarian philosophy of the Phyrexian faction, emphasizing the exchange of living resources for strategic knowledge.
The card’s illustration was created by artist Greg Staples, known for his work on numerous Magic: The Gathering cards during this era. Staples utilized a dark, visceral aesthetic to capture the mechanical horror inherent to the Phyrexian transformation process. The artwork portrays the clinical and cold nature of the procedure, aligning with the broader creative direction of the set, which aimed to showcase a world losing its soul to industrial assimilation and biological warfare.
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