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Despotic Scepter
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Masters Edition IIME2 · #206
- Card type
- Artifact
- Rarity
- Rare
- Indicative price
- Price unavailable
- Mana value
- 1
- Colour
- Colourless
Card text
: Destroy target permanent you own. It can't be regenerated.
Format legality
- CommanderLegal
- DuelLegal
- LegacyLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PredhLegal
- PremodernLegal
- 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
- Richard Thomas
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2008-09-22
Flavour text
"We were not meant to have such terrible things. They should be left where we found them, if not destroyed!" —Sorine Relicbane, Soldevi heretic
Rulings
You own a nontoken permanent if it started the game in your deck. If it started the game in no one's deck (for example, it was brought into the game by Living Wish), you own it if you brought it into the game.
A token's owner is the player under who created it.
