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Stonespeaker Crystal

Artifact4 generic mana

Colorless mana rocks are a dime a dozen, and colorless graveyard hate is nearly as common; what this bolts together is the recognition that both jobs sit idle most of the game. A rock that only ever taps for two colorless mana is a slot most decks can find room for but rarely feel good about, and dedicated graveyard exile is a card you desperately want in exactly one matchup and would happily cut in every other. Stapling the second onto the first solves the dead-card problem from both ends: the crystal earns its keep as ramp until the turn the graveyard war matters, then converts itself into a wide exile plus a replacement draw, so cashing it in leaves your hand no lighter than it started. The exile clause reaches any number of target players' graveyards, so it scales from a scalpel against a single reanimator opponent to a table-wide reset when several decks are leaning on their bins. That range is what recommends a colorless answer over a color-committed one: it makes no demand on a manabase and belongs anywhere, whatever the deck's colors. The quieter design lesson is that a mana source able to retire itself for value is fundamentally more attractive than one that just sits there, because it never becomes the topdeck you wish had been anything else.

Stonespeaker Crystal (clb)
CLB · #338uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.37
Foil: $3.77
Oracle Text

Rules text

Tap: Add Colorless manaColorless mana. 2 generic mana, Tap, Sacrifice this artifact: Exile any number of target players' graveyards. Draw a card.
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
N/A
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