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Tome of the Guildpact

Artifact — Book5 generic mana

The trick is that the fixing and the payoff live in the same slot: five generic mana buys a source that produces any color and refunds a card every time you cast something multicolored, so the more gold your list runs, the more the second line pays out. Most any-color mana producers ask you to build a heavily multicolored deck and hand you nothing but the mana in return; this one ties the fixing to a reward, which sharpens a real tension. Both abilities want the same board state, and half-measures get punished. A lightly gold deck runs a slow producer that occasionally cantrips; go all the way and it becomes a genuine engine, tapping to cast the very spells that then draw you cards. The trigger fires on the cast, not on resolution, so a countered or fizzled multicolored spell still cantrips, and "multicolored" checks the spell's actual colors on the stack (two or more colors from mana cost, color indicator, or a characteristic-defining ability), not Commander color identity: a gold card whose cost is not fully paid in every color still counts as long as it is genuinely two-or-more colored. It is a purpose-built reward for the gold-matters archetype, priced high enough that you do not slot it just to smooth a manabase. You run it because your list already drowns in multicolored cards and wants to be paid for it.

Tome of the Guildpact (rna)
RNA · #242rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.56
Foil: $3.51
Oracle Text

Rules text

Whenever you cast a multicolored spell, draw a card. 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
N/A
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