okay song for an okay card. Didn't see enough cowboy hats from the song, and the art is lacking in ghost. Ability that only works on not your turn makes it a bit awkward, but still strong.
There have been several landfall decks in my group that made good use of this. It also dodges the occasional Ruination, so that's nice. Niche but unique 7/10.
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The air here smells like a grave. It is stinky and I do not like it. Not one bit. I looked to the east the first time today and saw what I believed to be ant mounds. Or houses. Or antmoundhouses. I asked Jimmy if ant people lived there, and he just smiled degradingly, and called me a racist.
I mean, its nice to have a land lying around when someone goes Armageddon, and it might just get you into comeback mode. There's a lot of utility lands that produce colorless that often find a spot before this, though.
I ran this in my Karn list as an obligatory land before Karn became Daretti, but I'm not positive it would cut the mustard now with Wastes plus so many good nonbasics in OotG. I considered it for my Derevi, Empyrial Tactician landfall deck but ultimately even with 40+ lands in the list, it just didn't feel good enough. I'm going back to the drawing board on it soon though, and the presence of Retreat to Coralhelm alongside Budoka Gardener might earn this thing a slot as a three-card combo. 3/10 with incoming Wastes - only good in very niche, typically mono-colored decks that thrive off of self-discard or landfall. Was probably more like a 4/10 previously just for being a colorless source that EtB untapped for Kozi and Karn.
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This card is pretty good in other ways. It's an endless supply of landfall. If you face/play Winter Orb/Hokori, it can get you more mana if you don't have lands in hand.
This may seem borderline-useless, but I actually still run it in my Karn deck. Besides surviving Armageddon, it has three upsides:
1) Funny combo with Seer's Sundial (which I regard as a decent card advantage engine in an all-colorless deck), but since you have to use it on your opponent's turn, you just have to hope you don't draw a land on your draw step.
2) It's a "placeholder" for Vesuva. No copy-worthy lands in play and you want to drop your Vesuva? Just copy this and wait for a better target.
3) The art is pretty sweet.
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Chandra, Torch of Defiance - Oops! All Chandras.
Prime Speaker Zegana - Draw for Power.
Pir & Toothy - Counterpalooza.
Arcades, the Strategist - Another Brick in the Wall.
Zacama, Primal Calamity - Calamity of Double Mana.
Edgar Markov - Vampires Don't Die.
Child of Alara - Dreamcrusher.
I like to call this effect 'mana conversion'. You get no net gain of mana, but you can fix your colors until you do. If you really need a color converter at this CMC, I'd just go with chromatic star or chromatic sphere. Chromatic Lantern is the best at this though.
There's a number of these effects that cantrip (Prophetic Prism in colorless, Abundant Growth, Nylea's Presence, and Karametra's Favor in green), which makes poor ol mana cylix look kinda old and busted. Even for extremely budget players, there's enough stronger ways to spend a card fixing your mana and usually ramping at the same time, that this tier of filtering is dubious.
The old Planeshift art is pretty I guess? I would always run Fellwar Stone, Wayfarer's Bauble, Chromatic Star, Chromatic Sphere, Wanderer's Twig, Pilgrim's Eye, Prismatic Lens, or Chromatic Lantern over this even though some of those cards are quite bad and none are technically strictly better than Mana Cylix. It's just really hard to justify this kind of effect, even in 5 colors. 0/10 - I legitimately can't think of a single Commander, Archetype, or specialized format where this would be worthwhile.
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| Mazirek | Animar |
Modern
UR Storm RU
UBRG Dredge GRBU
Standard
UR Thermo-Thing RU
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Current Decks
GTitania midrange
RGThromok tokens/goodstuff | UB Grimgrin zombie tribal
GW Sigarda enchantress | R Godo voltron
U Braids aggro | WR Kalemne punisher
RU Mizzix storm | BUG Mimeoplasm competitive reanimator | UG Ezuri infect
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WUBOloro, Combo ControlWUB
UBOona Reanimator ComboUB
BRGProssh, Eater of the Blue MageBRG
UBRGrixis StormUBR
Rebuilding Jenara (stealyourstuff.dec)
Pauper Deck:
UBInspired SirenUB
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Modern: Kiki ChordWBRG
TokensWB
EDH: Kuon, Ogre AscendantBBB
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The air here smells like a grave. It is stinky and I do not like it. Not one bit. I looked to the east the first time today and saw what I believed to be ant mounds. Or houses. Or antmoundhouses. I asked Jimmy if ant people lived there, and he just smiled degradingly, and called me a racist.
I mean, its nice to have a land lying around when someone goes Armageddon, and it might just get you into comeback mode. There's a lot of utility lands that produce colorless that often find a spot before this, though.
RCRDaretti: Superfriends Forever RCR
WGBDoran: Ent-mootWBG
GGGMultani: Group Bear HugGGG
GB(B/G)The Gitrog Monster: Dredgefall DurdleGB(B/G)
RGWGahiji, the Honored Group Hug MonsterRGW
UB(U/B)Yuriko, Ninja Trinket AggroUB(U/B)
WUBRGAtogatog: Assembling a OHKOWUBRG
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Vaevictis (VV2) the Dire Lantern
Rona, Disciple of Gix
Tiana the Auror
Hallar
Ulrich the Politician
Zur the Rebel
Scorpion, Locust, Scarab, Egyptian Gods
O-Kagachi, Mathas, Mairsil
"Non-Tribal" Tribal Generals, Eggs
This card is pretty good in other ways. It's an endless supply of landfall. If you face/play Winter Orb/Hokori, it can get you more mana if you don't have lands in hand.
Oh, and now it produces 'diamond' mana.
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1) Funny combo with Seer's Sundial (which I regard as a decent card advantage engine in an all-colorless deck), but since you have to use it on your opponent's turn, you just have to hope you don't draw a land on your draw step.
2) It's a "placeholder" for Vesuva. No copy-worthy lands in play and you want to drop your Vesuva? Just copy this and wait for a better target.
3) The art is pretty sweet.
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The Strange Investigations of Dr. Circu (WIP)
...derp.
So, Mana Cylix. Uh...yeah I got nothing.
Chandra, Torch of Defiance - Oops! All Chandras.
Prime Speaker Zegana - Draw for Power.
Pir & Toothy - Counterpalooza.
Arcades, the Strategist - Another Brick in the Wall.
Zacama, Primal Calamity - Calamity of Double Mana.
Edgar Markov - Vampires Don't Die.
Child of Alara - Dreamcrusher.
Strictly better... art... than Candelabra of Tawnos.
UTeferi, Temporal ArchmageU's prison: blue is the new orange is the new black.
Mizzix Of The Izmagnus : wheels on fire... rolling down the road...
BSidisi, Undead VizierB: Bis zum Erbrechen
GTitiania, Protector Of ArgothG: Protecting Argoth, by blowing it up!
GYisan, The Wanderer BardG: Gradus Ad Elfball.
Duel EDH: Yisan & Titania.
In Progress: Grand Arbiter Augustin IV duel; Grenzo, Dungeon Warden Doomsday.
It becomes a proper mana rock with Mana Reflection. Combo!
Triggers prowess... so much power.
| Omnath | Zada | Alesha | Scion |
| Mazirek | Animar |
Modern
UR Storm RU
UBRG Dredge GRBU
Standard
UR Thermo-Thing RU
Current Decks
GTitania midrange
RGThromok tokens/goodstuff | UB Grimgrin zombie tribal
GW Sigarda enchantress | R Godo voltron
U Braids aggro | WR Kalemne punisher
RU Mizzix storm | BUG Mimeoplasm competitive reanimator | UG Ezuri infect
RCRDaretti: Superfriends Forever RCR
WGBDoran: Ent-mootWBG
GGGMultani: Group Bear HugGGG
GB(B/G)The Gitrog Monster: Dredgefall DurdleGB(B/G)
RGWGahiji, the Honored Group Hug MonsterRGW
UB(U/B)Yuriko, Ninja Trinket AggroUB(U/B)
WUBRGAtogatog: Assembling a OHKOWUBRG