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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#997: Noncreature Artifact Tokens

Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Wizards of the Coast

Duels Of The Planeswalkers, Games, Magic The Gathering, Leisure, Game Design, Mtg, Ccg, Mark Rosewater

4.8743 Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

In today's podcast, I talk about the seventeen noncreature artifact tokens from across Magic's history.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm not pulling my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for another drive to work at home edition.

0:07.0

Okay, so today I've decided to talk about non-creature artifact tokens. So artifact tokens that aren't creatures.

0:16.9

So I'm going to, there are 17 of them in the history of magic so far.

0:21.7

So I'm going to talk about them and sort of talk about how they came to be.

0:25.1

And talk a little bit about the evolution of the artifact token as a resource in design.

0:30.9

That is my topic today.

0:32.4

Okay.

0:33.0

So the very first artifact token was a gold token.

0:54.3

So it was an artifact, sacrifices artifact, add one man of any color to your manipole. So I think it first showed up. There's a card called Guild and Born of the Gods. Three in a Black, sorcery, Excel Tiger Creature, put a color's artifact token named gold onto the battlefield.

0:57.7

It has sacrificed this artifact, add one man of any color to your manipole.

0:59.5

So it turned something into gold.

1:00.7

That's the guild something.

1:02.3

I guess cover it with gold.

1:08.3

And then we had King McCar, which was enduring to Nix, the gold cursed.

1:11.9

Two black, black, two three, legendary creature, human, inspired. Whenever Kim McCix, the gold cursed. Two Black, Black, Two, Three, Legend of Creature Human, inspired.

1:15.6

Whenever King Macar, the gold curse, becomes untapped,

1:16.8

you may excel target creature.

1:19.6

If you do, put a cult's artifact token named Gold into the battlefield.

1:22.6

It has sacrificed its artifact, add one man of any color to your manipole.

1:28.3

Gold shows up on curse of opulence in a Commander set.

1:30.5

It shows up in the first I row in games.

1:34.8

So, and that's Theris Beyond Death.

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