Sentinel Tower
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
BattlebondBBD · #79
- Card type
- Artifact
- Rarity
- Rare
- Indicative price
- 1.58 € · ★ 5.39 € · 2.47 $ · ★ 6.12 $
- Mana value
- 4
- Colour
- Colourless
Card text
Whenever an instant or sorcery spell is cast during your turn, this artifact deals damage to any target equal to 1 plus the number of instant and sorcery spells cast before that spell this turn.
Format legality
- CommanderLegal
- DuelLegal
- LegacyLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- VintageLegal
Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).
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Printing information
- Illustrator
- Jung Park
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2018-06-08
Flavour text
The built-in obstacles force competitors to think three moves ahead.
Rulings
For example, the first instant or sorcery spell cast during your turn causes Sentinel Tower to deal 1 damage; the second causes it to deal 2 damage, and so on.
Sentinel Tower’s ability counts all instant and sorcery spells cast in the turn before the spell that caused it to trigger, even if those spells are still on the stack or have been countered.
Sentinel Tower’s ability resolves before the spell that caused it to trigger. It resolves even if that spell is countered.
You choose the target for Sentinel Tower’s ability, regardless of who cast the spell that caused it to trigger.