Mindlock Orb
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Shards of AlaraALA · #51
- Card type
- Artifact
- Rarity
- Rare
- Indicative price
- 0.21 € · ★ 0.99 € · 0.66 $ · ★ 4.76 $
- Mana value
- 4
- Colour
- Blue
Card text
Players can't search libraries.
Format legality
- CommanderLegal
- DuelLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PennyLegal
- PredhLegal
- 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
- rk post
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2008-10-03
Flavour text
Rogue mechanists once rummaged through the wastes of the Tidehollow, constructing unauthorized golems to threaten the hegemony of the sphinxes. The orbs put a stop to that.
Rulings
Effects that instruct you to reveal or look at cards from the top of you library will still work. Only effects that use the word "search" are affected.
If an effect says "Search your library . . . then shuffle your library," you shuffle you libraries even though you can't search.
If an effect says "You may search your library . . . If you do, shuffle your library" or "You may search your library . . . then shuffle your library," you can't choose to search, so you won't shuffle.
The only difference between a colored artifact and a colorless artifact is, obviously, its color. Unlike most artifacts, a colored artifact requires colored mana to cast. Also unlike most artifacts, a colored artifact has a color in all zones. It will interact with cards that care about color. Other than that, a colored artifact behaves just like any other artifact. It will interact as normal with any card that cares about artifacts, such as Shatter or Arcbound Ravager.
