First printed in The Brothers' War (2022)
Legendary Artifact — Powerstone
When The Mightstone and Weakstone enters, choose one —
• Draw two cards.
• Target creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn.
: Add 
. This mana can't be spent to cast nonartifact spells.
(Melds with Urza, Lord Protector.)
- Illustrated by
- Ryan Pancoast
Legality
- Legal in
- Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Historic, Timeless, Penny Dreadful, Gladiator, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Competitive Brawl
- Not legal in
- Standard, Pauper, Future Standard, Alchemy, Premodern, Old School 93/94, Pauper Commander, PreDH, Tiny Leaders, Standard Brawl
Rulings (11)
- A player prompted to name a card may name the combined back face, and each player has the right to know that combined back face's characteristics at all times.
- While a meld card is in any zone other than the battlefield, it has only the characteristics of its front face. The same is true while it's on the battlefield with its front face up.
- In the Commander variant, a meld card's color identity is determined only by the mana costs and mana symbols in the rules text of its front face. No symbols or rules text of the permanent it melds into are considered.
- When a pair of cards are melded, the result is a single creature that's represented by two cards. If the melded creature dies, both cards are put into your graveyard. As it leaves the battlefield, both of those cards are turned face up again. If the cards are put on the top or bottom of your library, you choose their relative order.
- Note that the permanent represented by the combined back faces has a color indicator.
- One card in each pair of meld cards has an ability that instructs you to exile the two cards and meld them. If you control more than one object with one of those names, you select one object with that name to exile.
- While a melded permanent is on the battlefield, it has only the characteristics of its combined back face. Any effects that modify how the new object enters the battlefield will consider only the combined back face.
- Only two cards belonging to the same meld pair can be melded. Tokens, cards that aren't meld cards, or meld cards that don't form a meld pair can't be melded. If an effect instructs a player to meld cards that can't be melded, those cards remain in exile.
- The mana value of a melded permanent is the sum of the mana values of its front faces. A creature that becomes a copy of a melded permanent has only the characteristics of that combined back face, and its mana value is 0.
- If an effect moves a melded permanent to a new zone and then affects "that card," it affects both cards.
- When two cards are exiled and melded, they each leave the battlefield, then return together as one new object with no relation to either of the objects that left the battlefield. Counters, Auras, Equipment, and other effects that affected those two cards don't affect the melded permanent.
Prices
MTGO price: 0.007 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 1 Nov 2026).
Combos
8 combos, the most popular first:
- Infinite creature ETB, Infinite landfall triggers…: Archaeomancer + Ghostly Flicker + The Mightstone and Weakstone + Urza, Lord Protector
- Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB…: Ancestral Statue + The Mightstone and Weakstone + Urza, Lord Protector
- Infinite creature ETB, Infinite landfall triggers…: Ghostly Flicker + Mnemonic Wall + The Mightstone and Weakstone + Urza, Lord Protector
- Infinite activations of most planeswalkers, Infinite death triggers…: Clock of Omens + Krark-Clan Ironworks + The Chain Veil + The Mightstone and Weakstone + Urza, Lord Protector
- Infinite activations of most planeswalkers, Infinite death triggers…: Ashnod's Altar + Clock of Omens + The Chain Veil + The Mightstone and Weakstone + Urza, Lord Protector
- Infinite creature ETB, Infinite landfall triggers…: Ghostly Flicker + Salvager of Secrets + The Mightstone and Weakstone + Urza, Lord Protector
- Infinite activations of most planeswalkers, Infinite death triggers…: Ashnod's Altar + Dross Scorpion + The Chain Veil + The Mightstone and Weakstone + Urza, Lord Protector
- Infinite activations of most planeswalkers, Infinite death triggers…: Dross Scorpion + Krark-Clan Ironworks + The Chain Veil + The Mightstone and Weakstone + Urza, Lord Protector
