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Bender's Waterskin

Artifact3 generic mana

The premium the color-fixing mana rock always pays is the tempo hit of coming down tapped, or the deckbuilding cost of a strict color restriction. This one takes a different tack: it fixes for any color, but it also untaps during every other player's untap step, quietly multiplying its output across a full turn cycle. That clause is the whole reason it exists, and it rewards holding mana up outside your own turn. Even against a single opponent it untaps on their untap step, handing you a fresh activation for instants or flash cards; add more opponents and each of their untap steps hands you another, mana you can spend on instant-speed interaction, flash threats, or an untap-window combo piece held up across the table. The design lineage here is the untap-on-others'-turns rock, a class that has always leaned on having other turns to exploit: stronger the more opponents there are. What makes this one worth a second look is the unconditional any-color output stapled to it, folding fixing and off-turn ramp into a single slot that most such artifacts split between two cards. It rewards a build that actually wants to act on other players' turns; parked in a deck that only ever spends mana on its own turn, the extra untaps go to waste.

Bender's Waterskin (tla)
TLA · #255common
Pricing
Normal: $1.00
Foil: $4.59
Oracle Text

Rules text

Untap this artifact during each other player's untap step. Tap: Add one mana of any color.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
Legal
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
Legal
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Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
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Oathbreaker
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Gladiator
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Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
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