Mana stone

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Mana Stone
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A mana stone, also called mana rock, is an artifact that produces mana.

Description

A mana stone is a mana producing artifact, which is neither a creature or land. The moxes are mana stones as well, but with no mana investment needed it puts them into their own category.

Mana stones are popular in Commander as a means to speed up the game as mana stones are additional mana sources that continuously provide extra mana to play bigger spells ahead of curve. Cards that require the sacrifice of permanents are therefore not considered mana stones in the strict sense.

Mana stones were often employed at common to enhance mana quality or mana fixing in limited and regularly come in cycles when producing colored mana, though often they produce colorless mana and have additional abilities. Nowadays, full cycles are rarer and only show up in multicolored sets. For other sets, there is either a basic land searcher or a three-mana, five-color artifact with minor upside. Additionally, the cost has increased lately from an average of two mana to three mana.

A subclass of mana stones are those that can turn themselves into creatures during the late game, providing additional attackers when additional mana becomes less desirable. This is comparable to manlands, another form of mana-producing permanent that turn themselves into creatures.

Cycles

Cycle name
Mana Batteries	White Mana Battery	Blue Mana Battery	Black Mana Battery	Red Mana Battery	Green Mana Battery
	From Legends which cost and can store up mana for later use, thus function similar to storage lands.
Diamonds	Marble Diamond	Sky Diamond	Charcoal Diamond	Fire Diamond	Moss Diamond
	From Mirage which cost and function like taplands, but precede them.
Ramos Artifacts	Tooth of Ramos	Eye of Ramos	Skull of Ramos	Heart of Ramos	Horn of Ramos
	From Mercadian Masques which cost , which act like mono-colored versions of the sacrifice lands from Invasion.
Totems	Thunder Totem (Thunder Spirit)	Chronatog Totem (Chronatog)	Phyrexian Totem (Phyrexian Negator)	Foriysian Totem (Two-Headed Giant of Foriys)	Weatherseed Totem (Weatherseed Treefolk)
	From Time Spiral which cost and can become Reserved List creatures.
Cycle name
Cameos	Seashell Cameo	Drake-Skull Cameo	Bloodstone Cameo	Troll-Horn Cameo	Tigereye Cameo
	From Invasion which cost .
Borderposts	Fieldmist Borderpost	Mistvein Borderpost	Veinfire Borderpost	Firewild Borderpost	Wildfield Borderpost
	From Alara Reborn which cost MN but can be played for and returning a basic land to its owners hand.
Monuments	Ojutai Monument	Silumgar Monument	Kolaghan Monument	Atarka Monument	Dromoka Monument
	From Dragons of Tarkir which cost , tap for one of two colors, and can become 4/4 Dragon creatures with flying for 4MN.
Talismans	Talisman of Progress	Talisman of Dominance	Talisman of Indulgence	Talisman of Impulse	Talisman of Unity
	From Mirrodin which cost and mimic pain lands.
Signets	Azorius Signet	Dimir Signet	Rakdos Signet	Gruul Signet	Selesnya Signet
	From the Ravnica block which cost and mimic filter lands.
Cluestones	Azorius Cluestone	Dimir Cluestone	Rakdos Cluestone	Gruul Cluestone	Selesnya Cluestone
	From Dragon's Maze which cost , tap for one of two colors, and have an MN activated ability similar to Mind Stone which let them be sacrificed to draw a card.
Lockets	Azorius Locket	Dimir Locket	Rakdos Locket	Gruul Locket	Selesnya Locket
	From the Guilds of Ravnica block which cost , tap for one of two colors, and can be sacrificed by tapping and paying four hybrid mana to draw two cards.
Keyrunes	Azorius Keyrune	Dimir Keyrune	Rakdos Keyrune	Gruul Keyrune	Selesnya Keyrune
	From Return to Ravnica and Gatecrash which cost , tap for one of two colors, and can become creatures for MN.
Cycle name
Talismans	Talisman of Hierarchy	Talisman of Creativity	Talisman of Resilience	Talisman of Conviction	Talisman of Curiosity
	From Modern Horizons which cost and mimic pain lands.
Signets	Orzhov Signet	Izzet Signet	Golgari Signet	Boros Signet	Simic Signet
	From the Ravnica block which cost and mimic filter lands.
Cluestones	Orzhov Cluestone	Izzet Cluestone	Golgari Cluestone	Boros Cluestone	Simic Cluestone
	From Dragon's Maze which cost , tap for one of two colors, and have an MN activated ability similar to Mind Stone which let them be sacrificed to draw a card.
Lockets	Orzhov Locket	Izzet Locket	Golgari Locket	Boros Locket	Simic Locket
	From the Guilds of Ravnica block which cost , tap for one of two colors, and can be sacrificed by tapping and paying four hybrid mana to draw two cards.
Keyrunes	Orzhov Keyrune	Izzet Keyrune	Golgari Keyrune	Boros Keyrune	Simic Keyrune
	From Return to Ravnica and Gatecrash which cost , tap for one of two colors, and can become creatures for MN.
Cycle name
Obelisks	Obelisk of Bant	Obelisk of Esper	Obelisk of Grixis	Obelisk of Jund	Obelisk of Naya
	From Shards of Alara which cost and tap for one of three colors.
Cycle name
Banners	Abzan Banner	Jeskai Banner	Mardu Banner	Sultai Banner	Temur Banner
	From Khans of Tarkir which cost , tap for one of three colors, and have an MNO activated ability similar to Mind Stone which let them be sacrificed to draw a card.
Crystals	Indatha Crystal	Raugrin Crystal	Savai Crystal	Zagoth Crystal	Ketria Crystal
	From Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths which cost , tap for one of three colors, and have cycling .