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Manascape Refractor

Artifact3 generic mana

This copies the activated abilities of every land in play, not just yours: any player's Gaea's Cradle, Cabal Coffers, Nykthos, or Maze of Ith becomes a button you can press, and the color-fixing rider means the activation cost is never the obstacle. That turns a symmetric board of utility lands into a private toolbox. The design cost is the tapped-entry clause without the payoff of being a land: it comes down tapped like a slow dual would, but it sits in the artifact slot, so it survives a Wasteland or Strip Mine that would answer the real thing while still borrowing that land's ability from across the table. It also stacks abilities: it has all activated abilities of all lands at once, so a board full of manlands, sac-lands, and fetch effects becomes a menu you read in real time. Its whole value depends on reading what everyone else's lands actually do, which makes it one of the few artifacts that rewards board literacy over board development. The ceiling is dictated entirely by the room; against a table of vanilla duals it does almost nothing, and across a table stacked with premium utility lands it quietly becomes the most powerful land on the battlefield without occupying a land slot at all.

Manascape Refractor (c20)
C20 · #68rare
Pricing
Normal: $1.13
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Oracle Text

Rules text

This artifact enters tapped. This artifact has all activated abilities of all lands on the battlefield. You may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to pay the activation costs of this artifact's abilities.
Legalities

Format Status

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