Moonsilver Key
Moonsilver Key: Artifact, Innistrad: Midnight Hunt. MTG card printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {2}
- Mana value
- 2
- Type
- Artifact
- Colour identity
- Colourless
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Set
- Innistrad: Midnight Hunt (MID)
- Released
- 2021-09-24
- Collector number
- 255
- Artist
- Joseph Meehan
- Commander rank
- 1,651 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
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About Moonsilver Key
Moonsilver Key is a Magic: The Gathering card, an uncommon colourless artifact from Innistrad: Midnight Hunt (MID), an expansion set released in September 2021. It is collector number 255 in that set, with art by Joseph Meehan. It costs {2} (two generic mana) to cast, for a mana value of 2. It has no colour identity. It is legal in Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Historic, Timeless and Gladiator. It has been printed in 2 sets, from Innistrad: Midnight Hunt (2021) to Innistrad: Double Feature (2022). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $1.15 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-01).
Card text
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for an artifact card with a mana ability or a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
To restore the day-night balance, the Celestus mechanism's Sungold Lock must be reunited with its long-lost key.
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $1.15 (as of 2026-11-01).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Moonsilver Key by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Pioneer | Legal |
|---|---|
| Modern | Legal |
| Legacy | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Brawl | Legal |
| Historic | Legal |
| Timeless | Legal |
| Gladiator | Legal |
Other printings of Moonsilver Key
Moonsilver Key has been printed in 2 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Innistrad: Double Feature (DBL) #255 | Uncommon | 2022 |
Official rulings
Two official rulings apply to Moonsilver Key, newest first.
- Most mana abilities found on artifacts are activated mana abilities. An activated mana ability is an activated ability that could produce mana as it resolves, does not require a target, and isn't a loyalty ability.
- Some artifacts, such as Gauntlet of Power, have triggered mana abilities. A triggered mana ability is a triggered ability that could produce mana as it resolves, triggers on the resolution of an activated mana ability or on mana being added, and doesn't require a target.
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