Wooden Sphere
Revised Edition 281 • uncommon
- Set
- Revised Edition
- Collector number
- 281
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Mana cost
- 1 generic mana
- Type
- Artifact
- Colors
- Colorless
- Artist
- Mark Tedin
- Market price
- $0.33
What it does
Whenever a player casts a green 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
Wooden Sphere was released in 1994 as part of the Revised Edition for Magic: The Gathering. As the third core set of the game, it was designed to increase the availability of cards from the out-of-print Alpha and Beta sets. The card functions as an artifact that allows a player to pay one mana to prevent the next point of damage dealt to them by a red source, reflecting the game's early focus on color-specific counters and reactive utility.
The card features artwork by Dan Frazier, one of the original artists who defined the game's early visual identity. Frazier's style for the artifact cards in this set relied on simple, iconic renderings of objects against clean backgrounds, emphasizing the literal interpretation of the card's name. While it was a common card and lacked the competitive dominance of other artifacts from the era, it remains a nostalgic example of the minimalist aesthetic that characterized early nineties trading card design.
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