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Mindstorm Crown

Magic: The GatheringMirrodin#207

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MirrodinMRD · #207

Card type: Artifact
Rarity: Uncommon
Indicative price: 0.17 € · ★ 0.43 € · 0.20 $ · ★ 0.43 $
Mana value: 3
Colour: Colourless

Card text

At the beginning of your upkeep, draw a card if you had no cards in hand at the beginning of this turn. If you had a card in hand, this artifact deals 1 damage to you.

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).

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Printing information

Illustrator: Ben Thompson
Card language: English
Release date: 2003-10-02

Rulings

2004-12-01

Mindstorm Crown cares about the number of cards in your hand at the time the turn started, not as the ability resolves. So if you have more than one Crown on the battlefield and no cards in your hand at the start of the turn, you draw a card for each Crown.

2004-12-01

Mindstorm Crown’s ability doesn’t have an “intervening ‘if’ clause.” It always goes onto the stack at the start of your upkeep.