Trinisphere
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
From the Vault: ExiledV09 · #15
- Card type
- Artifact
- Rarity
- Mythic rare
- Indicative price
- ★ 21.50 € · ★ 42.33 $
- Mana value
- 3
- Colour
- Colourless
Card text
As long as this artifact is untapped, each spell that would cost less than three mana to cast costs three mana to cast. (Additional mana in the cost may be paid with any color of mana or colorless mana. For example, a spell that would cost to cast costs to cast instead.)
Format legality
- CommanderLegal
- DuelLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PredhLegal
- VintageRestricted
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
- Tim Hildebrandt
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2009-08-28
Flavour text
Designed to restrain petty thoughts, but used to repress entire empires.
Rulings
If Trinisphere leaves the battlefield or becomes tapped or untapped as a cost to cast a spell, this cost is paid after you've locked in the total cost.
To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost you're paying, add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions. Finally, apply Trinisphere's effect if the mana component of the spell's cost is less than three mana. The mana value of the spell remains unchanged, no matter what the total cost to cast it was.
