For Challenge # 077. A little Johnny card that operates on two different levels in 1993 and 2013. In 2013 there's no mana burn. It's unlikely your opponent has a lot of spells in their deck that can take full advantage of this artifact, but the effect should be easy enough to build around. Just stuff a lot of creatures with activated abilities in your deck, and you're ready to rumble.

There is mana burn in 1993... but your mana pool also doesn't empty until the end of your turn. You don't need to use the mana during combat, making this card work like an odd Mana Flare that favors players with attacking creatures the most. Combos well with Goblins + Fireball.

Ideally, if I was to cost this card today, I probably would have said . We don't have the luxury of hybrid. Or gold, for that matter. But the early game used to be full of artifacts that didn't quite belong in any one color. Looks fine to me.

­Mana Echoes that triggers on combat rather than ETB. Nifty. Powerful... more powerful in 1993, but the things you can cast with all that mana back then aren't. (Well, there's still Fireball.)

...Wait, I read this as "whenever a creature attacks", so it squared it. If it's just linear then that's fine.