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CardName: Mana Filter Cost: 1 Type: Artifact Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: {1}, {T}: Add to your mana pool one mana of any type that a land you control could produce. {1}, Sacrifice Mana Filter: Draw a card. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Melody Common |
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: Add to your mana pool one mana of any type that a land you control could produce.
The least useful bits of Mana Cylix, but with a Mind Stone option instead. Alternatively, Prophetic Prism with the cantrip at the end of its lifecycle rather than the start. I'd usually rather just have Prophetic Prism.
All of the above is true. In fact, I find these types of cards so pathetic that I don't think I even played Mana Cylix in Shards block draft.
Nonetheless, designing semi-playable but completely mediocre cards is a challenge worth pursuing.
True. This one though.. it doesn't mana unscrew you. It gets you more mana of a colour you've already got, which is going to be useful far less often.
Still.. it's a 1 drop, and you really don't want to accidentally enable a turn2 bringer, so it needs some limit.
There is a rational reason that it's the Reflecting Pool of Cylixes: this set does have a significant multicolor theme, but I didn't want to sacrifice the ability to create densely monocolored designs. Mana Filter offers a limited fixing capability oriented towards cards with two or more of the same color in the cost, while giving you the availability to just cycle it away if need be.