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Artifact
LegalRampCard DrawRank #608
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At the beginning of each upkeep, put an hour counter on this artifact.
When the twelfth hour counter is put on this artifact, shuffle your hand and graveyard into your library, then draw seven cards. Exile this artifact.
Why is this card good?
Midnight Clock is a sneaky-good blue mana rock that doubles as a guaranteed reset of your resources. It enters as a rock—on par with the staples like a worse-ramp-but-better-payoff option—and accumulates counters every upkeep. After roughly 12 turns (faster if you pump mana into it), it reshuffles your hand and graveyard into your library and refills you to seven cards.
That delayed "wheel for yourself" is the real draw. It's excellent in control, mono-blue, and grindy commanders like Talrand, Urza, or anything that runs low on gas in long games. It also resets a depleted graveyard back into your deck, which can matter against mill or for re-using bombs.
The downside: the payoff is slow and uncontrollable—you can't time the draw, and it exiles itself, so it's a one-shot. Skip it in fast combo or aggressive token/aristocrats decks that win before turn 12, or where you just want efficient ramp. Best as a value rock in patient blue shells.
rock—on par with the staples like a worse-ramp-but-better-payoff option—and accumulates counters every upkeep. After roughly 12 turns (faster if you pump mana into it), it reshuffles your hand and graveyard into your library and refills you to seven cards.
That delayed "wheel for yourself" is the real draw. It's excellent in control, mono-blue, and grindy commanders like Talrand, Urza, or anything that runs low on gas in long games. It also resets a depleted graveyard back into your deck, which can matter against mill or for re-using bombs.
The downside: the payoff is slow and uncontrollable—you can't time the draw, and it exiles itself, so it's a one-shot. Skip it in fast combo or aggressive token/aristocrats decks that win before turn 12, or where you just want efficient ramp. Best as a value rock in patient blue shells.Related cards
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Printings (13)
Played by these commanders
Tegwyll, Duke of Splendor100% of 1
Millicent, Restless Revenant100% of 1
Saheeli, Radiant Creator100% of 1
Stella Lee, Wild Card100% of 1
Perrie, the Pulverizer100% of 1
Firkraag, Cunning Instigator100% of 1
Satya, Aetherflux Genius100% of 2
Rulings (4)
- 2019-10-04
If Midnight Clock leaves the battlefield while its last ability is on the stack, it won't be exiled.
- 2019-10-04
You can activate Midnight Clock's mana ability to pay the cost of its second ability.
- 2019-10-04
Midnight Clock's last ability triggers after one or more counters are put onto it if it had fewer than twelve counters on it before those counters were put on it and it has twelve or more counters on it after.
- 2019-10-04
Midnight Clock's first triggered ability triggers at the beginning of each upkeep, not just your upkeep. In a Two-Headed Giant game, an ability that triggers at the beginning of each upkeep rather than each player's upkeep triggers only once during each team's upkeep.