Uncommon · Magic 2012

Scepter of Empires

Artifact

{T} : This artifact deals 1 damage to target player or planeswalker. It deals 3 damage instead if you control artifacts named Crown of Empires and Throne of Empires.

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How it plays

What it wants, and what it gives

Read from the rules text. A card that enables a keyword makes or is the thing; a card that rewards it gets better when you have it. Two cards interact when one enables what the other rewards.

It enables

enablesBurn & pingersKeyword page →Deals noncombat damage, or amplifies and rewards it.108 cards reward Burn & pingers enablesArtifactsKeyword page →Is or makes artifacts, or rewards you for playing and controlling them.734 cards reward Artifacts enablesHistoricKeyword page →Artifacts, legendaries and Sagas, and cards that count them.60 cards reward Historic

Works well with

Cards that click with it

enablesBurn & pingersmeetsrewardsBurn & pingers108 cards reward it

Price

Lowest printing, from Scryfall.

US market$0.26

EU market$0.23

Foil, lowest$2.05

Price history: Magic 2012 #216

Non-foil
Foil

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Date	Non-foil	Foil
12 Nov 2026	$0.26	$2.05
11 Nov 2026	$0.26	$2.05

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