Damping Sphere
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Dominaria RemasteredDMR · #377
- Card type
- Artifact
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Indicative price
- 1.93 € · ★ 11.97 € · 2.12 $ · ★ 12.64 $
- Mana value
- 2
- Colour
- Colourless
Card text
If a land is tapped for two or more mana, it produces instead of any other type and amount. Each spell a player casts costs more to cast for each other spell that player has cast this turn.
Format legality
- BrawlLegal
- CommanderLegal
- CompetitivebrawlLegal
- DuelLegal
- GladiatorLegal
- HistoricLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PioneerLegal
- TimelessLegal
- 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
- Adam Paquette
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2023-01-13
Flavour text
A Thran relic, it has spent ten thousand years doing absolutely nothing.
Rulings
Damping Sphere’s second ability counts spells that were cast during a turn even if Damping Sphere wasn’t on the battlefield as they were cast. For example, if Damping Sphere itself is the third spell you cast in a turn, the next spell you cast costs more to cast.
If multiple replacement effects would modify the mana an ability you control produces, choose one to apply. After that, determine if any others are applicable. A replacement effect can’t apply to the same event more than once.
To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost (such as a flashback cost) you’re paying, add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions. The mana value of the spell is determined only by its mana cost, no matter what the total cost to cast the spell was.
