Treasure

For other uses, see Treasure (disambiguation).

Treasure
Artifact Type
(Subtype for artifact cards)
Rules	, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.
Storm Scale	2
Statistics	6 cards 33.3% 16.7% 50% 271 Treasure creation cards 4.1% 3.3% 5.5% 12.9% 35.8% 7.4% 0.7% 3% 2.6% 0.4% 0.7% 4.4% 0.7% 1.1% 1.1% 4.8% 10.3% 1.1%
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Treasure is a predefined token and artifact type introduced in the Ixalan block. It appeared exclusively on tokens until the release of Dungeons & Dragons: Adventures in the Forgotten Realms.

Description

Like Gold tokens previously, these Treasure artifact tokens can be sacrificed for mana. Unlike Gold, these artifact tokens must also be tapped. Red (primary) and Green (secondary) were slated to have more access to treasures than other colors. In practice, Blue had a significant head-start on Green, which got none in the earlier sets, with White getting its first treasure maker two years later in Smothering Tithe. Black tends to usually require some additional cost, while blue can do it for flavor reasons (e.g. Pirates). Green received numerous Treasure makers across Modern Horizons 2, Dungeons & Dragons: Adventures in the Forgotten Realms and Streets of New Capenna, quickly overtaking Blue for third place.

Nontoken Treasures

• Mimic
• Dire Mimic
• Courier's Briefcase
• Goldhound
• Glittering Stockpile
• Buried Treasure

While all of these ostensibly have an ability that sacrifices them for any color of mana, Goldhound and Glittering Stockpile act slightly differently.

History

Gold tokens had been considered for the Ixalan block but proved problematic with the improvise mechanic from Aether Revolt in the Standard environment, so R&D had to add a tap and change the token's name.

There were four versions of the printed Treasure token in the Ixalan block, each with the art of a chest that contains valuables from one of the four factions.

Treasure tokens reappeared in Ravnica Allegiance (Smothering Tithe), and are now considered deciduous.

With the release of Core Set 2020, Treasure became a predefined token. As a consequence, the description of what a treasure token does now appears in the reminder text, instead of in the rules text. Older treasure token cards were errataed.

In Strixhaven: School of Mages, Treasure represents artistic creations of the Prismari, the physical manifestation of their magic. While Primari is blue-red aligned, the only mono-blue Treasure maker is one that gives some to your opponent.

The first card that featured the artifact type was Mimic from Dungeons & Dragons: Adventures in the Forgotten Realms. It featured the same ability as the previous tokens. Minimus Containment, printed in the same set, can make a permanent into a Treasure. The game can track the mana that is produced from sacrificing a Treasure, and this was made mechanically relevant in this set.

In Streets of New Capenna, the main colors for Treasure are back in Red-Green. It also demonstrates a new way to balance Treasure creation by them being created tapped. Three more Treasure cards were printed, though unlike other subtypes printed on cards, two of them do not hold the true functionality of Treasures: Goldhound has summoning sickness, while Glittering Stockpile only generates variable mana after a stash counter is added on it, though it compensates with being a red mana stone in the meantime.

Trivia

• Revel in Riches is an alternate-win card making use of Treasure tokens: at the beginning of your upkeep, if you control ten or more Treasures, you win the game.
• To celebrate the 2018 Chinese New Year League, Wizards of the Coast in Taiwan released special foil treasure tokens depicting the Chinese Myth of the Money Tree.
  • Simarily, a metal goldplated was token became available to celebrate the 2021 holidays in South-East Asia.
• Unlike Clues (Investigate), treasure creation was designed without an associated keyword. If R&D had decided that Treasure would have needed a keyword, they would have wanted it to be generic to allow as many flavor interpretations as possible, so something like “produce Treasure” or "discover Treasure".
• Since its introduction Treasure has become the most common token, with over 200 cards producing Treasure tokens.

Rules

From the glossary of the Comprehensive Rules (June 7, 2024—Modern Horizons 3)

Treasure Token

A Treasure token is a colorless artifact token with “{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.” For more information about predefined tokens, see rule 111.10.

From the Comprehensive Rules (June 7, 2024—Modern Horizons 3)

• 111.10. Some effects instruct a player to create a predefined token. These effects use the definition below to determine the characteristics the token is created with. The effect that creates a predefined token may also modify or add to the predefined characteristics.
  • 111.10a A Treasure token is a colorless Treasure artifact token with “{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.”
  • 111.10b A Food token is a colorless Food artifact token with “{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: You gain 3 life.”
  • 111.10c A Gold token is a colorless Gold artifact token with “Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.”
  • 111.10d A Walker token is a 2/2 black Zombie creature token named Walker.
  • 111.10e A Shard token is a colorless Shard enchantment token with “{2}, Sacrifice this enchantment: Scry 1, then draw a card.”
  • 111.10f A Clue token is a colorless Clue artifact token with “{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.”
  • 111.10g A Blood token is a colorless Blood artifact token with “{1}, {T}, Discard a card, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.”
  • 111.10h A Powerstone token is a colorless Powerstone artifact token with “{T}: Add {C}. This mana can’t be spent to cast a nonartifact spell.”
  • 111.10i An Incubator token is a transforming double-faced token. Its front face is a colorless Incubator artifact with “{2}: Transform this artifact.” Its back face is a 0/0 colorless Phyrexian artifact creature named Phyrexian Token.
  • 111.10j A Cursed Role token is a colorless Aura Role enchantment token named Cursed with enchant creature and “Enchanted creature has base power and toughness 1/1.”
  • 111.10k A Monster Role token is a colorless Aura Role enchantment token named Monster with enchant creature and “Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has trample.”
  • 111.10m A Royal Role token is a colorless Aura Role enchantment token named Royal with enchant creature and “Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has ward {1}.”
  • 111.10n A Sorcerer Role token is a colorless Aura Role enchantment token named Sorcerer with enchant creature and “Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has ‘Whenever this creature attacks, scry 1.’”
  • 111.10p A Virtuous Role token is a colorless Aura Role enchantment token named Virtuous with enchant creature and “Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 for each enchantment you control.”
  • 111.10q A Wicked Role token is a colorless Aura Role enchantment token named Wicked with enchant creature, “Enchanted creature gets +1/+1,” and “When this Aura is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, each opponent loses 1 life.”
  • 111.10r A Young Hero Role token is a colorless Aura Role enchantment token named Young Hero with enchant creature and “Enchanted creature has ‘Whenever this creature attacks, if its toughness is 3 or less, put a +1/+1 counter on it.’”
  • 111.10s A Map token is a colorless Map artifact token with “{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Target creature you control explores. Activate only as a sorcery.” See rule 701.40, “Explore.”
  • 111.10t A Junk token is a colorless Junk artifact token with “{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Exile the top card of your library. You may play that card this turn. Activate only as a sorcery.”

Treasure mana

A number of cards from Dungeons & Dragons: Adventures in the Forgotten Realms contain the clause "if mana from a Treasure was spent" giving a bonus if the clause is fulfilled:

• Devour Intellect () — opponent reveals their hand, and you choose the card to discard.
• Forsworn Paladin () — target creature gains deathtouch.
• Hired Hexblade () — you draw a card and lose 1 life.
• Jaded Sell-Sword () — gains first strike and haste until end of turn.
• Kalain, Reclusive Painter () — gives a +1/+1 counter for each treasure mana spent to other creatures cast.
• Price of Loyalty () — +2/+0 to stolen creature.
• Spoils of the Hunt () — +1/+0 for each treasure mana spent.

This design returns in different forms in later sets, namely in Streets of New Capenna, where Treasures is a theme for Gruul () sub-archetype.

• Jetmir's Fixer () — gets a +1/+1 counter.
• Security Rhox() — casts for if both were treasure mana.
• Rain of Riches () — gives cascade to treasure-spent spells.
• Vazi, Keen Negotiator () — draws a card and gives a +1/+1 counter for mana spent by opponents from treasures.
• Marut () — produces a treasure for each treasure mana spent.
• Pirate's Landing () — seek a Pirate card.
• Mastermind Plum () — Allows a player to draw a card and lose 1 life for each spell cast with mana from a Treasure.

Treasure tokens

Tokens marked with are created by Acorn cards.

Token Name	Color	Type Line	P/T	Text Box	Source	Printings
Treasure	Colorless	Artifact — Treasure		, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.	Academy Manufactor Alora, Cheerful Swashbuckler An Offer You Can't Refuse Ancestors' Aid Ancient Copper Dragon A-Prosperous Thief A-Stimulus Package Atsushi, the Blazing Sky Axgard Artisan Baeloth Barrityl, Entertainer The Balrog of Moria Bank Job Bathe in Gold A-Bathe in Gold Battle Angels of Tyr Beamtown Beatstick The Belligerent Big Score Big Spender Bilbo, Retired Burglar Bill Ferny, Bree Swindler Black Market Connections Black Market Tycoon Blood Money Bonehoard Dracosaur Boneyard Desecrator Bootleggers' Stash Bottle-Cap Blast Boxing Ring Brass's Bounty Brazen Freebooter Breeches, Eager Pillager Bucknard's Everfull Purse Burakos, Party Leader Burdened Aerialist Buy Your Silence A-Buy Your Silence Captain Lannery Storm Careening Mine Cart Cataclysmic Prospecting Cavern-Hoard Dragon Centrifuge Chaos Balor Charming Scoundrel City of Death Collector's Vault Contested Game Ball Contract Killing Corsair Captain Crack Open Creative Outburst Crucias, Titan of the Waves Culmination of Studies Currency Converter Cutthroat Negotiator Deadeye Plunderers Deadly Derision Deadly Dispute Decadent Dragon Depths of Desire Descent into Avernus Diamond Pick-Axe Dihada, Binder of Wills Dire Fleet Hoarder Discerning Financier Dockside Extortionist Don Andres, the Renegade Done for the Day Dungeon of the Mad Mage Dungeoneer's Pack Edward Kenway Elemental Masterpiece Enterprising Scallywag Erestor of the Council Excavation Technique Excess Exhibition Magician A-Exhibition Magician Exit Through the Grift Shop Fable of the Mirror-Breaker Fae Offering Fain, the Broker Fake Your Own Death Flick a Coin Forge, Neverwinter Charlatan Forging the Tyrite Sword Forsworn Paladin Frost Fair Lure Fish Furnace Reins Gadrak, the Crown-Scourge Galadriel, Gift-Giver Gala Greeters Galazeth Prismari Ganax, Astral Hunter Gemcutter Buccaneer Generous Plunderer Gilded Pinions Gimli of the Glittering Caves Gleaming Barrier Glittermonger A-Glittermonger Glóin, Dwarf Emissary Gluntch, the Bestower Goblin Airbrusher The Golden City of Orazca Gold Pan Gold Rush Goldspan Dragon Goldvein Hydra Goldvein Pick Gorbag of Minas Morgul Great Train Heist The Great Work Greedy Freebooter Grim Bounty Grim Hireling Guild Artisan Halo Scarab Heap Gate Heartless Pillage Hell to Pay Henry Wu, InGen Geneticist Herald of Hadar Hit the Mother Lode Hoard Hauler Hoard Robber Hoarding Ogre Hornswoggle Hullbreacher Ignacio of Myra's Marvels Impetuous Lootmonger Improvised Weaponry Impulsive Pilferer Ingenious Mastery Inspired Tinkering Instrument of the Bards Invasion of Ergamon Involuntary Employment Jan Jansen, Chaos Crafter Jared Carthalion Jewel Thief Jewel-Eyed Cobra Jolene, Plundering Pugilist Jolene, the Plunder Queen Kalain, Reclusive Painter Kamachal, Ship's Mascot Kellogg, Dangerous Mind Kerblam! Warehouse Korvold and the Noble Thief Lara Croft, Tomb Raider Life Insurance Lobelia Sackville-Baggins Loot Dispute Lost Mine of Phandelver Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff Luck Bobblehead Luxurious Locomotive Magda, Brazen Outlaw Magda, the Hoardmaster Magma Opus Magmatic Galleon Mahadi, Emporium Master Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator Malik, Grim Manipulator Marching Duodrone Mari, the Killing Quill Marut Mary Read and Anne Bonny Master of Ceremonies Mastermind Plum The Matrix of Time Meet and Greet "Sisay" Megaton's Fate Mine Raider Mines of Moria Misfortune Teller Monologue Tax Most Wanted A-Most Wanted Mr. House, President and CEO Negan, the Cold-Blooded New New York Noble's Purse North Pole Research Base Nuka-Cola Vending Machine Oath of the Grey Host Ognis, the Dragon's Lash Old Gnawbone Old Rutstein Olivia, Opulent Outlaw Orochi Soul-Reaver Pain Distributor Patient Naturalist Patron of the Arts Petty Larceny Pick-a-Beeble Pinkie Pie Pirate's Pillage Pirate's Prize Pitiless Plunderer Plundering Barbarian Plundering Pirate Poetic Ingenuity Prismari Command Prized Statue Prizefight Professional Face-Breaker Prosper, Tome-Bound Prosperous Innkeeper Prosperous Partnership Prosperous Pirates Prosperous Thief Prying Blade Racketeer Boss Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer Rain of Riches Ramirez DePietro, Pillager Rankle and Torbran Rapacious Dragon Rashmi and Ragavan The Reaver Cleaver Reckless Endeavor Reckless Lackey Reckoner Bankbuster Redcap Thief Redrock Sentinel Revel in Riches Riveteers Requisitioner RMS Titanic Rose Room Treasurer Ruthless Knave Ruthless Technomancer Safana, Calimport Cutthroat Sailor of Means Sassy Gremlin Blood Scion of Opulence Seize the Spoils Seize the Spotlight Shambling Ghast Shiny Impetus Skullport Merchant Smashing Success Smoke Spirits' Aid Smothering Tithe Smuggler's Share Song of Eärendil Spectrox Mines Spell Swindle Spiked Pit Trap Spiteful Banditry Spiteful Repossession Sticky Fingers Stimulus Package Storm the Vault Storm-Kiln Artist Strike It Rich Sudden Breakthrough Surly Badgersaur Swarming of Moria Swashbuckler Extraordinaire Sword of Wealth and Power Tavern Scoundrel Tempting Contract That's Mine There and Back Again Thieves' Tools The Third Doctor Tireless Provisioner Tivit, Seller of Secrets Treasure Chest Treasure Dredger Treasure Keeper Treasure Map Treasure Vault Trove of Temptation Undercity Undercity Scrounger Unexpected Windfall Vault 21: House Gambit Vault Robber Vazi, Keen Negotiator Visions of Ruin Volatile Fault Vraska, Relic Seeker Wanted Scoundrels Warren Soultrader The Western Cloud Widespread Thieving Wily Goblin Xorn You Find a Cursed Idol You've Been Caught Stealing Zhentarim Bandit Ziatora, the Incinerator

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  Brazen Coalition chest

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  Sun Empire chest

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  Legion of Dusk chest

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  River Heralds chest

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  2018 Money Tree promo

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  Orzhov Syndicate coin

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  Dragon's Hoard

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  2021 South East Asia Gold plated Holiday promo token.

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  2022 South East Asia New Capenna promo tokens.