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CardName: Ancient Cenotaph Cost: 2 Type: Artifact Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: Ancient Cenotaph enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {B} to your mana pool. {2}, {T}: Add {B} to your mana pool for each black creature card in your graveyard. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Shifting Sands Uncommon |
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: Add 
to your mana pool.
Crypt of Agadeem as an artifact, following the land -> Artifact "rule" (any non-basic land can be an artifact with cmc 2).
) but it isn't really neccessary as you will seldom run this in a deck that doesn't include black creatures.
I considered making this a coloured artifact (
This will be expanded into a cycle of mana artifacts - one for each colour.
Unfortunately, that rule isn't really followed by Wizards any more, due to their recent policy that 2cmc ramp doesn't belong in colors other than green.
Cenotaph. Damn good word.
Yeah I think I'll have to change the CMC to 3 (although then I may be able to drop the ETBs tapped.
Thanks Unc, yeah I like trying to use words that have rarely if ever been used in printed magic but that fit the colour/colours use them on - maybe I should change my tag to Mr.Thesaurus
LOL
Shouldn't the ability cost
and give mana for all creatures, not just black ones?
No because this is part of a cycle of lands, each colour cares about different things in your graveyard.
But it is curiously asymmetric with Blazing Monolith which costs
to activate.
yes it is an asymmetric cycle with Arcane Repository,Blazing Monolith, Blessed Monument, and Private Menagerie as the activation costs are based on how powerful the ability can potentially be.
remove flavour text which read - Though the names once engraved upon it are lost to time, its power merely slumbers.