Tooth of Ramos

The Mox-shaped slot in white that never quite earned the comparison. Each card in this artifact cycle taps for one color and offers a one-time sacrifice for an extra pip of that same color, and the math is deliberately unkind: three mana up front to produce a single mana per turn, with a sacrifice that gives one more and then takes the rock off the board entirely. That is not acceleration; it is a delayed wash, a permanent that needs to sit for three turns just to break even on its cost. What the design is actually for is the burst, and specifically the burst that bypasses the lands you have. The sacrifice clause turns a tapped-out white board into a sudden free pip, which matters when assembling a combo total your untapped lands cannot reach or paying into an effect on a turn the manabase says you cannot. The Tooth shares its shape with the Eye, the Skull, the Heart, and the Horn because the cycle wanted ritual-adjacent fixing that left a body behind in the artifact-matters subtheme rather than vanishing the way a true ritual does. The two-pip ceiling is what caps the whole exercise: tapped and sacrificed together it adds at most two mana of one color, so the card serves decks already living on the edge of their curve rather than ones trying to ramp ahead of it.