Jinxed Idol
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
TempestTMP · #293
- Card type
- Artifact
- Rarity
- Rare
- Indicative price
- 2.77 € · 1.25 $
- Mana value
- 2
- Colour
- Colourless
Card text
At the beginning of your upkeep, this artifact deals 2 damage to you. Sacrifice a creature: Target opponent gains control of this artifact.
Format legality
- CommanderLegal
- DuelLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PennyLegal
- PredhLegal
- PremodernLegal
- VintageLegal
Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).
Indicative Scryfall prices, updated daily. ★: foil; ★ E: etched foil. EUR and USD represent different markets.
Printing information
- Illustrator
- John Matson
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 1997-10-14
Flavour text
"Here."
Rulings
Your opponent can use the ability to give this card back to you.
If you sacrifice an attacking or blocking creature during the declare blockers step, it won’t deal combat damage. If you wait until the combat damage step, but that creature is dealt lethal damage, it’ll be destroyed before you get a chance to sacrifice it.
The control-change effect has no duration. The targeted player retains control of Jinxed Idol until the game ends, Jinxed Idol leaves the battlefield, or an effect causes someone else to gain control of it (perhaps because Jinxed Idol’s ability is activated again).
