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Mystic Skull // Mystic Monstrosity

Artifact // Artifact Creature — Construct

The two-mana any-color rock is a familiar shape, but the reverse face reframes what fixing can be: it hands every land you control an ability to tap for any color at once. That is a categorical jump, not an incremental one. One mana rock fixes a single color per turn; a global grant means every basic and every fetched dual quietly doubles as a five-color source, without crowding the board with extra fixers. The five-mana transform cost is the brake on all this, an enormous investment to flip, which means the early turns are spent as a plain fixer before the payoff ever arrives. That gulf between the modest front and the sweeping back is why the transform mechanic works here: a cheap artifact fixer sits up front at two mana, and a far bigger reward waits on the back, bought with mana a deck might rather spend on threats. The Construct that shows up when it flips is beside the point; nobody transforms this for a beater. It flips to solve what no stack of individual fixing rocks can: casting spells whose color demands outrun a normal manabase, in decks greedy enough to need every land pulling double duty.

Mystic Skull // Mystic Monstrosity (mid)
MID · #256uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.14
Foil: $0.31
Oracle Text

Rules text

1 generic mana, Tap: Add one mana of any color. 5 generic mana, Tap: Transform this artifact. // Lands 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
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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