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Resonating Lute

Artifact2 generic manaBlue manaRed mana

Two rituals stapled to your entire manabase, restricted to the half of the game where doubling your mana actually breaks something open. This is a spell-slinger's engine dressed as a mana rock: every land you control gains the ability to tap for two of a single color, but only to cast instants and sorceries, so the ramp bends toward exactly the payoff a red-blue deck wants and toward nothing else. That restriction is the whole balance of the card; you cannot dump the surplus into a creature or an artifact activation, only into the burn, the counters, the draw spells, the storm count. The card-draw clause serves as the release valve: once you have flooded your hand casting nothing (or drawn into a pile of dead lands), it converts the excess into cards, but only while you are already holding seven or more, so it rewards the hoarding, tap-out-for-value posture a spell-heavy control deck naturally drifts into. The two halves point at the same player from opposite directions: the mana doubler wants everything spent on the stack, the draw clause wants a full grip. A deck built to satisfy both generates far more mana than it can spend on any single turn and turns the overflow into velocity, which is about as close as a four-mana artifact comes to being a dedicated spells-matter payoff while contributing nothing to the board on its own.

Resonating Lute (sos)
SOS · #355rare
Pricing
Normal: $2.25
Foil: $2.94
Oracle Text

Rules text

Lands you control have "Tap: Add two mana of any one color. Spend this mana only to cast instant and sorcery spells." Tap: Draw a card. Activate only if you have seven or more cards in your hand.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
Legal
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
Legal
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
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

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