Smokestack
Mana Cost:
Type: Artifact
Oracle Text:
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a soot counter on this artifact.
At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player sacrifices a permanent of their choice for each soot counter on this artifact.
Power/Toughness: -/-
Rarity: rare
Prints: View all prints (1) →
Expansion: Mystery Booster 2
Price ( USD): $1.68
USD: $1.68 · EUR: €1.92
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Character Background
Smokestack is one of Magic’s classic prison tools, and it best supports a control or attrition game plan built to outlast everyone else’s resources. Once it starts accumulating soot counters, it turns every upkeep into a tax on permanents, slowly choking the table while you stay ahead on board, mana, or card advantage. The key is that you choose whether to add counters, which lets you pace the lock: keep it at one or two while you develop, then escalate when you’re ready to close. It pairs especially well with token makers, recursive permanents, and sacrifice fodder such as Bloodghast-style threats or artifact tokens, since you can feed the Stack while opponents lose real cards. Decks that break parity with mana rocks, planeswalkers, or lands that replace themselves also make it far more asymmetrical. In practice, Smokestack rewards patience, board awareness, and a plan to win after the table has been stripped bare.
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