Pentagram of the Ages
Artifact
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: The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Masters Edition IV
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #26767
Pentagram of the Ages offers repeatable, colorless indestructibility — tap four mana, make any creature indestructible until end of turn — which is powerful in theory but punishing in practice, because four mana and a tap cost is too slow to protect anything against instant-speed removal. It's a niche role-player at best, not a staple.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Pentagram of the Ages is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but sees essentially no competitive play in any of them. In Commander it occasionally appears in decks that want a colorless indestructibility outlet — particularly voltron or sacrifice-loop builds where protecting a key creature on your own turn matters more than responding to removal — but the four-mana activation is a steep ask in a format where the game moves fast. Legacy and Vintage have access to far more efficient protection effects, so Pentagram of the Ages doesn't register there. Oathbreaker is the only other context where its colorless identity gives it marginal appeal, and even there it struggles to justify the slot.
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Price Context
Current price
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Pricing data for Pentagram of the Ages isn't available in the current market feed, so treat any specific figure with caution and check Scryfall or TCGPlayer directly before buying or trading. As an obscure artifact with minimal competitive demand, it typically falls in the bulk-rare range, but low supply on an old printing can push singles higher than the card's power level would justify.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.