Akki Rockspeaker

Creature — Goblin Shaman 1/1, 1R (2)

When Akki Rockspeaker enters the battlefield, add {R} to your mana pool.

The lava-proof shells of akki evolved over centuries, as akki pranks almost always got seriously out of hand.

Illus. David Martin

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• 1/25/2011: You get the mana whether you want it or not. If you don't spend it, it will disappear at the end of the current step (or phase).

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern

Alloy Myr

Artifact Creature — Myr 2/2, 3 (3)

{T}: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool.

With or without witnesses, the suns continued their prismatic dance.

Illus. Matt Cavotta

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Extended (Type 1.X)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern

Altar of the Lost

Artifact, 3 (3)

Altar of the Lost enters the battlefield tapped.

{T}: Add two mana in any combination of colors to your mana pool. Spend this mana only to cast spells with flashback from a graveyard.

Illus. Daarken

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• 1/22/2011: Altar of the Lost doesn't allow you to cast spells from any other player's graveyard, although you can spend the mana it produces on such spells if something else allows you to.
• 1/22/2011: You can spend mana produced by Altar of the Lost to cast any spell with flashback that you cast from a graveyard. You don't have to be using flashback to cast that spell, however, as long as something else is allowing you to cast that spell.

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Extended (Type 1.X)
• Legal in Standard (Type 2)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern

Ashnod's Altar

Artifact, 3 (3)

Sacrifice a creature: Add {2} to your mana pool.

The Brothers' War scarred the land, but Ashnod left her mark in the bloodlines of those she tortured.

Illus. Anson Maddocks

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander

Astrolabe

Artifact, 3 (3)

{1}, {T}, Sacrifice Astrolabe: Add two mana of any one color to your mana pool. Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Illus. Amy Weber

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander

Barbed Sextant

Artifact, 1 (1)

{1}, {T}, Sacrifice Barbed Sextant: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool. Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Illus. Amy Weber

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander

Basalt Monolith

Artifact, 3 (3)

Basalt Monolith doesn't untap during your untap step.

{T}: Add {3} to your mana pool.

{3}: Untap Basalt Monolith.

Illus. Jesper Myrfors

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• 10/4/2004: It can be untapped as often as you can pay for it.

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander

Battle Hymn

Instant, 1R (2)

Add {R} to your mana pool for each creature you control.

"A church is just wood and walls. A congregation is the faithful praising the angels."
—Kolman, elder of Gatstaf

Illus. Nils Hamm

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• 5/1/2012: Battle Hymn uses the stack and can be responded to. The amount of mana you add to your mana pool is based on the number of creatures you control when Battle Hymn resolves.

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Extended (Type 1.X)
• Legal in Standard (Type 2)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern

Black Lotus

Artifact, 0

{T}, Sacrifice Black Lotus: Add three mana of any one color to your mana pool.

Illus. Christopher Rush

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• Official Reprint Policy (This card is on the reserved list)

• Restricted in Vintage (Type 1)
• Banned in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Banned in Commander

SQUARE EDGES AND GOLD-BORDERED BACKSIDE, NOT TOURNAMENT LEGAL

Printings:
#234 (Christopher Rush)

Editions:
International Collectors' Edition (Rare)
Collector's Edition (Rare)
Unlimited Edition (Rare)
Limited Edition Beta (Rare)
Limited Edition Alpha (Rare)

Languages:
(None)

all prints in all languages

Blacker Lotus

Artifact, 0

{T}: Tear Blacker Lotus into pieces. Add four mana of any one color to your mana pool. Play this ability as a mana source. Remove the pieces from the game afterwards.

Illus. Christopher Rush

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• This card is not legal in any format

Blinkmoth Urn

Artifact, 5 (5)

At the beginning of each player's precombat main phase, if Blinkmoth Urn is untapped, that player adds {1} to his or her mana pool for each artifact he or she controls.

The vedalken embed such urns in their living artifact creations.

Illus. David Martin

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• 10/4/2004: The precombat main phase is the first main phase of the turn. All others are postcombat main phases, even if they technically occur before combat.
• 12/1/2004: The "precombat main phase" is the first main phase of the turn. All other main phases are "postcombat main phases."

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern

Braid of Fire

Enchantment, 1R (2)

Cumulative upkeep—Add {R} to your mana pool. (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)

"To a trained mind, the cold is but a momentary distraction."

Illus. Cyril Van Der Haegen

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• 10/1/2009: Braid of Fire is a very unusual card. "Add {R} to your mana pool" is a cost. This enchantment does nothing but add increasing amounts of mana to your mana pool during your upkeep.
• 10/1/2009: Any of this mana that isn't spent during your upkeep step will be removed before your draw step begins. You cannot save it to be spent on the card you will draw this turn.

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern

Brightstone Ritual

Instant, R (1)

Add {R} to your mana pool for each Goblin on the battlefield.

Wizards fought over the stone to exploit its power. Goblins fight over it because it's shiny.

Illus. Wayne England

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander

Brood Birthing

Sorcery, 1R (2)

If you control an Eldrazi Spawn, put three 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature tokens onto the battlefield. They have "Sacrifice this creature: Add {1} to your mana pool." Otherwise, put one of those tokens onto the battlefield.

Illus. Anthony Francisco

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• 6/15/2010: Whether you control an Eldrazi Spawn is checked as Brood Birthing resolves.
• 6/15/2010: If you put a single token onto the battlefield this way, it's exactly like the ones specified earlier: it's a 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature token that has "Sacrifice this creature: Add {1} to your mana pool."

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Extended (Type 1.X)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern

Caged Sun

Artifact, 6 (6)

As Caged Sun enters the battlefield, choose a color.

Creatures you control of the chosen color get +1/+1.

Whenever a land's ability adds one or more mana of the chosen color to your mana pool, add one additional mana of that color to your mana pool.

Illus. Scott Chou

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• 6/1/2011: Caged Sun's triggered ability is a mana ability, which means the ability doesn't use the stack and can't be responded to.

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Extended (Type 1.X)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern

Cathodion

Artifact Creature — Construct 3/3, 3 (3)

When Cathodion dies, add {3} to your mana pool.

Cathodions repair the Great Furnace by soldering parts of themselves to the mechanism. Eventually, they become one with the machine.

Illus. Eric Peterson

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• 10/4/2004: The ability is never a mana ability.
• 1/25/2011: You get the mana whether you want it or not. If you don't spend it, it will disappear at the end of the current step (or phase).

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern

Celestial Prism

Artifact, 3 (3)

{2}, {T}: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool.

Illus. Amy Weber

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Commander

Chaos Moon

Enchantment, 3R (4)

At the beginning of each upkeep, count the number of permanents. If the number is odd, until end of turn, red creatures get +1/+1 and whenever a player taps a Mountain for mana, that player adds {R} to his or her mana pool (in addition to the mana the land produces). If the number is even, until end of turn, red creatures get -1/-1 and if a player taps a Mountain for mana, that Mountain produces colorless mana instead of any other type.

Illus. Drew Tucker

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• 5/1/2006: In Two-Headed Giant, triggers only once per upkeep, not once for each player.

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Commander

Chromatic Lantern

Artifact, 3 (3)

Lands you control have "{T}: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool."

{T}: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool.

Dimir mages put the lanterns to good use, creating shapeshifters and sleeper agents from mana foreign to them.

Illus. Jung Park

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• 10/1/2012: Lands you control won’t lose any other abilities they had. They also won’t gain or lose any land types.

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Extended (Type 1.X)
• Legal in Standard (Type 2)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern

Chromatic Sphere

Artifact, 1 (1)

{1}, {T}, Sacrifice Chromatic Sphere: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool. Draw a card.

"As expected, this sphere's design reflects the colors of the four moons . . . plus another?"
—Pontifex, elder researcher

Illus. Brian Snõddy

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• 8/1/2008: This is a mana ability, which means it can be activated as part of the process of casting a spell or activating another ability. If that happens you get the mana right away, but you don't get to look at the drawn card until you have finished casting that spell or activating that ability.

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern