Ankh of Mishra

Enchantment Niches

Glass Casket has me concerned. It feels like, ever since colored artifacts became an every-set thing, there just aren't that many mechanical niches for enchantments anymore. Artifacts get to also be creatures, cost generic mana, have tap abilities... the list goes on. The only thing enchantments can do that artifacts can't is attach to objects other than creatures you control.

Artifacts have had global effects since the game began back in Alpha (Ankh of Mishra, Black Lotus, Copper Tablet, Dingus Egg, Gauntlet of Might, Howling Mine, Kormus Bell, Meekstone, Sunglasses of Urza, and Winter Orb). The change is we’re allowing artifacts to have colored mana costs (and even this we’ve done for over ten years - just not at the current levels). This means the overlap between artifacts and enchantments, which has always been there, is a little more noticeable.The color pie is determined by the mana cost of the card, so if white can do something as an enchantment, it means it can do it as an artifact, The result of this is we have to lean a little more on the flavor to help make them feel different from one another.

Alpha Ankh of Mishra Artifacts Attach Black Black Lotus Color Pie Colorless Colors Copper Tablet Creatures Dingus Egg Egg Enchantments Flavor Gauntlet of Might Glass Casket Howling Mine Kormus Bell Mana Meekstone Orb Sunglasses of Urza Tap / Untap White Winter Orb

Ankh Errata Explanation

Why doesn't ankh of mishra have the same "as long as ~ is untapped" oracle wording like howling mine and winter orb?

When Sixth Edition rules got rid of the “tapped artifacts don’t work rule”, we errataed a few artifacts used a lot in tournament play to have the “if untapped” text. When those cards got reprinted they used the new text.
Eventually, R&D adopted a rule where we stopped doing functional errata when possible, so we removed the “if untapped” text where we could. Unfortunately some cards had been reprinted with the new text and far more of those existed in print, so on those few cards we kept the “if untapped” text.

Ankh of Mishra Artifacts Card Printing Errata Functional Errata Howling Mine Orb Reprints Rules Winter Orb

Reprint Possibility

What are the chances of Ankh of Mishra getting reprinted? I'd love to see it legal in Modern.

A card like Ankh of Mishra? Possible. Ankh of Mishra itself? Less likely.

Ankh of Mishra Card Printing Format Legality Modern Reprints

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