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Cryptolith Rite

Enchantment1 generic manaGreen mana

Earthcraft turned creatures into mana but kept the basic-land clause that made it a combo piece, and tapped only for one color. Strip that clause, widen the output to any color, and you have an engine that converts a board into a treasury rather than a loop: every creature you control becomes a fixed-up mana source. The catch lives in summoning sickness. A fresh token is a body now and a mana source next turn, so the payoff lags a beat behind the board's growth. That delay is what keeps this from being a degenerate ramp spell and steers it toward decks already committed to a wide, persistent battlefield, where the question is less about acceleration and more about what a swarm of small creatures should become: a five-color top-end, fuel for a sacrifice sink, a way to pour an entire turn's worth of bodies into one payoff. It does nothing on an empty board, which is the honest cost of an enchantment that asks the rest of the deck to supply the creatures. In the right green go-wide shell it functions as a second mana base layered over the battlefield, folding color-fixing and acceleration into one permanent that scales precisely with how invested you already are in going wide.

Cryptolith Rite (soi)
SOI · #200rare
Pricing
Normal: $6.83
Foil: $6.02
Oracle Text

Rules text

Creatures you control have "Tap: Add one mana of any color."
Legalities

Format Status

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