A mana stone, also called mana rock, is an artifact that produces mana.[1]
Description[]
Mana stones were often employed at common to enhance mana quality or color fixing in limited and regularly come in cycles when producing colored mana, though often they produce colorless mana and have additional abilities.
Nowadays, full cycles are rarer and only show up in multicolored sets. For other sets, there is either a basic land searcher or a three-mana, five-color artifact with minor upside. Additionally, the cost has increased lately from an average of two mana to three mana.
Mana Stones are popular in Commander as a means to speed up the game as mana stones are additional mana sources that continuously provide extra mana. Artifact creatures and cards that require the sacrifice of permanents are not considered mana stones.
The moxes can also be considered mana stones.
Cycles[]
Producing colorless mana[]
- Automated Artificer
- Basalt Monolith
- Dreamstone Hedron, which is essentially three Mind Stones on one card.
- Dungeon Map
- Hedron Archive, which is essentially two Mind Stones on one card.
- Everflowing Chalice
- Fractured Powerstone
- Grim Monolith
- Hierophant's Chalice
- Honor-Worn Shaku
- Kyren Toy
- Liquimetal Torque
- Magnifying Glass
- Mana Crypt
- Mana Vault
- Mind Stone
- Myr Reservoir - for Myr only
- Orazca Relic
- Powerstone Shard
- Prismatic Lens
- Pristine Talisman
- Seer's Lantern
- Serum Powder
- Sisay's Ring, a correctly costed version of Sol Ring
- Sol Ring, produces more mana than it costs the turn it enters the battlefield and is thus often considered broken.
- Spell Satchel
- A-Spell Satchel
- Strixhaven Stadium
- Thought Vessel
- Thran Dynamo
- Thran Turbine
- Ur-Golem's Eye
- Victory Chimes
- Worn Powerstone
Producing any color[]
- Arcum's Astrolabe - filters
- Bonder's Ornament
- Caged Sun
- Chromatic Lantern
- Chromatic Orrery
- Coalition Relic, can store like a Mana Battery.
- Coldsteel Heart, produces snow mana of a chosen color.
- Corrupted Grafstone
- Coveted Jewel
- Cryptolith Fragment
- Darksteel Ingot
- Dragon's Hoard
- Elementalist's Palette
- Fellwar Stone
- Firemind Vessel
- Gemstone Array, can store like a Mana Battery.
- Gilded Lotus
- Honored Heirloom
- Icy Manalith (token generated by Svella, Ice Shaper)
- Key to the Archive
- Khalni Gem
- Letter of Acceptance
- Mad Science Fair Project
- Manalith
- Mana Cylix - filters
- Mystic Skull - filters
- Network Terminal
- Paradise Plume, also a lucky charm.
- Pentad Prism
- Phyrexian Lens
- Pillar of Origins
- Pyramid of the Pantheon
- Replicating Ring and Replicated Ring
- Skyclave Relic
- Sol Grail
- Spectral Searchlight
- Sphere of the Suns
- Springleaf Drum
- Star Compass
- The Celestus
- Vessel of Endless Rest
Other[]
- Altar of Shadows Adds
per charge counter in the first main phase.
- Arcane Signet [1] Adds one mana in any color of the Controllers' Commanders' color Identity.
- Charmed Pendant Adds a variable amount of colored mana
- Crowded Crypt Add
- Cursed Mirror Add
- Extraplanar Lens Doubles one color of mana. Its controller chooses which color.
- Gauntlet of Might Only for Mountains. Doubles one color of mana (
).
- Gauntlet of Power Only for basics. Doubles one color of mana. Its controller chooses which color.
- Glittering Stockpile Add
- The Great Henge Add
- Midnight Clock Add
- Nyx Lotus Mana equal to one's devotion in color chosen when tapped.
- Visage of Bolas Add
,
and
Man stones[]
A common subclass of Mana stones are those that can turn themselves into creatures during the late game, providing additional attackers when additional mana becomes less desirable. This is comparable to Manlands, another form of mana-producing permanent that turn themselves into creatures.
Cycles[]
Cycle name | |||||
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Totems | Thunder Totem (Thunder Spirit) |
Chronatog Totem (Chronatog) |
Phyrexian Totem (Phyrexian Negator) |
Foriysian Totem (Two-Headed Giant of Foriys) |
Weatherseed Totem (Weatherseed Treefolk) |
From Time Spiral which cost | |||||
Cycle name | |||||
Monuments | Ojutai Monument | Silumgar Monument | Kolaghan Monument | Atarka Monument | Dromoka Monument |
From Dragons of Tarkir which cost | |||||
Keyrunes | Azorius Keyrune | Dimir Keyrune | Rakdos Keyrune | Gruul Keyrune | Selesnya Keyrune |
From Return to Ravnica and Gatecrash which cost | |||||
Cycle name | |||||
Keyrunes | Orzhov Keyrune | Izzet Keyrune | Golgari Keyrune | Boros Keyrune | Simic Keyrune |
From Return to Ravnica and Gatecrash which cost |
Other[]
References[]
- ↑ a b Gavin Verhey (July 22, 2019). "A new Era for Brawl". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ a b Trick Jarrett (April 16, 2013). "The Cluestones". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ a b Monty Ashley (November 16, 2012). "A Closer Look at the Keyrunes". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.