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Cathodion
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Urza's SagaUSG · #287
- Card type
- Artifact Creature — Construct
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Indicative price
- 0.34 € · 0.31 $
- Mana value
- 3
- Power
- 3
- Toughness
- 3
- Colour
- Colourless
Card text
When this creature dies, add .
Format legality
- CommanderLegal
- DuelLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PauperLegal
- PaupercommanderLegal
- 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
- Henry G. Higginbotham
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 1998-10-12
Flavour text
Instead of creating a tool that would be damaged by heat, the Thran built one that was charged by it.
Rulings
The ability is never a mana ability.
The triggered ability isn't a mana ability. It uses the stack and can be responded to.
You get the mana whether you want it or not. If you don't spend it, it will disappear at the end of the current step (or phase).
