3 mana rocks worth playing | Better than a Booster January 2025

[@Yunas_Jet]

Glittering Stockpile also has one of my all-time favourite interactions - it itself is a treasure so it easily triggers effects that care about "mana from a treasure" like rain of riches EVERY TURN

[@andsig1011]

I missed this interaction. I've been abusing artifact lands and this plays into treasure vault. Thank you for pointing it out

[@Yunas_Jet]

@andsig1011 Treasure Vault may be an artifact land but it's not itself a treasure, sadly. But they still work well together >:3

[@JayoticMTG]

As a Cascade fan, I love that synergy. I run them in Vihaan.

[@yoshimonkey645]

Im amazed that you can somehow keep finding cheap cards that make me go “wait what that one exists? Why does no one play it”.

[@ZiskaR-m6o]

Because the day of 3 cmc rocks all over the place has passed long ago unless they due a specific function in a deck

[@multiekstravardistan4480]

@@ZiskaR-m6o + wizards are spitting so much sets these days its hard to keep up with everything

[@TapTwoCounterspell]

No one is playing it bc there is likely something STRICTLY better. 3 CMC rocks are some of the very first cuts beyond extremely synergistic uses.

[@Mischievous_Moth]

I discovered Guardian Idol when I was building my Mirodin-only deck and it's since become a stable in my builds. It's surprisingly good in all honesty.

[@gemkid85]

Because they aren't playing me. I own and use literally every one of these rocks lol. Great picks

[@DanteInformal]

Cursed Mirror used to be a $5 mana rock, but after a few reprints in Thunder Junction and Doctor Who, it's a whole 50¢. Three mana to get a temporary clone of the best creature on the board (which also gains haste!) in the late game is such a huge impact.

[@stratavosstuff7575]

Ot even has an infinate loop with astral dragon (the one from baldur's gate' draconic dissent)

[@metricarea7546]

Yeah, very surprised that Cursed Mirror was not mentioned. I won games with it

[@ChadowT98]

@@metricarea7546 Probably since it's pretty popular, I knew about it but not about any of the cards on this list (except staff too actually)

[@caseywellington4761]

Cursed mirror is legitimately one of my favorite mana rocks of all time

[@Dawn_Cavalier]

I’m working on a battles deck and Misleading Signpost seems like a great fit. It’s a fog when you need it, a way to flip a battle and a mana rock all in one.

[@Shimatzu95]

This is actually brilliant

[@dhadgar]

Incredible video! Its so nice to see a content creator talking about 3 mana rocks in a positive light and you even included 3 of my 5 favorite three mana rocks which made it even cooler for me. I look forward to seeing of the other two make it onto your future lists with this theme.

[@dulon90]

The screwdriver has become the bane of my group, it's in like half the decks we play and randomly making something unblockable has led to countless cheese kills.

[@turtle_stew_Lukas]

Sonic Screwdriver is the exact card that I did not know I was looking for to give unblockable in my ninja/artifact list. Thanks!

[@geeknseek]

So happy you mentioned The Celestus. Yes, Day/Night is balls, but there's so much incidental value in this card that's just over $1!

[@wafflehaxxx]

Yeah it doesn't matter how good it is. Day/Night is not worth it.

[@JohnathanCurrency]

As someone who's first real deck was Werewolf Tribal, I can further attest that keeping track of day and night is the single most painful thing about the deck lol

[@jkattack2640]

im sorry but id rather lose the value than track this

[@Shimatzu95]

​@@jkattack2640 = the reason it is cheap

[@caseywellington4761]

The Celestis is a great card if you're playing digitally. But if your playing paper, everyone will hate trying to keep track of day and night

[@erikandersson9060]

I love Sonic Screwdriver's brother Laser Screwdriver as a defensive goad tool.

[@mn6334]

Both Screwdrivers are pretty cool

[@wurmweaver7646]

I will always glaze phial of galadriel. There's so many more applications for it outside of when you are empty handed at the start of a turn. You rummage away the last card with thrill of possiblity, you draw from empty from an effect like with castle locthwain after dumping your hand in the middle of the turn, or when you wheel or timetwister. All of those effects also net you extra cards. It's also legendary so it's got extra benefits such as chucking it into mount doom or any of those legendary matters commanders.

[@Shimatzu95]

Pretty sure its the best rock for decks reliant on red "draw". If you impulsedraw your cards aren't "in hand" and most actual draw is actually fancy looting/rummageing.

[@patches.742]

I’ve been trying to upgrade my Varina zombies deck that wheels a lot and I found this card last night, it’s perfect for it, the life gain might even be relevant too

[@dicedude1071]

A few of my pet 3-mana rocks are Bonder's Ornament, Kyren Toy, and Heraldic Banner. Bonder's Ornament is a pretty easy include as ramp and draw in colors that aren't the best at it, and Kyren Toy is an admittedly worse version of Gleaming Stockpile, but hey, sometimes you're in a combo deck without red and that mana storage can be handy. Heraldic Banner serves as a nice anthem effect in either mono color decks or decks with a Commander that poops out tokens like The Locust God. Honorable Mention to Midnight Clock, which is just over $5 and is hardly a secret offmeta pick everyone knows how strong this card is, and Bandit's Haul, which is cheap and periodically draws you cards if you're poking your opponent's stuff.

[@plasmawisp18]

I love bonder's ornament. I never see anyone else play it though

[@mn6334]

I love me a good Heraldic Banner. Most recently put one in my Rendmaw deck.

[@griffenfarnsley]

I love your videos, they inspired me to get creative with deckbuilding, I also grinded out the podcast when I was sick this break, so thanks for that!

[@cedarbobedar7223]

Every time I play Bonder's Ornament it's such a good card - mana rock 99% of the time but when I'm flooded it draws cards and every now and then somebody will copy it and feed you some extra card draw because they're flooded. Network Terminal is really good too, assuming you reliably have other artifacts on board and don't mind binning cards. They're easy to slot into just about every deck. I'd run Sonic Screwdriver in more decks if I could find more copies but the Dr. Who stuff is scarce around here. Oh and fwiw, Bounty Board is easily the best card in the deck for that "Shay Cormac" Assassin's Creed card. It's an evil bastard of a deck, but Bounty Board really keeps it humming feeding you life, cards, and a little good PR in a deck where everybody will absolutely hate you lol

[@jamescrean1580]

Omg I used to run most of these on Arena brawl, I can’t believe I never picked any of these up when I switched to paper! Thank you for the PSA!!

[@Fanged_Cutie]

You should take a look at Cursed Mirror! It’s more silly than versatile; but it’s absolutely won me games before

[@joedoe7572]

It's not silly at all. It's super powerful. It's even played in cEDH

[@felixa4705]

100%! I'm surprised it wasn't on this list. You can get them for like 50 cents at the time of posting.

[@chasm9557]

Skyclave Relic's kicker ability is an etb effect, so it works with Elesh Norn MOM. It gives you 2 extra (total of 5) relics if you have MOM on board, but if someone else has MOM on board then don't pay the kicker cost because you'll be paying 6 mana for just the one rock.

[@mavorenborsteel6765]

It should also work with Mondrak as they double your tokens

[@Kryptnyt]

There's a few cards that ask you to pay "Mana from a treasure" for something and Glittering Stockpile is a nice rock in decks that want to be doing that. I think Patriar's Seal is worth consideration in quite a few decks. Agility/Endurance/Intelligence Bobbleheads are goodish standalone cards. Patchwork Banner and Heraldic Banner can be good for decks that make a lot of tokens. Relic of Legends is kind of insane sometimes. And people know Worn Powerstone is good, but it deserves to be mentioned.

[@Phonk-vo4oi]

Great video! It really takes a great next step from Snails take last year, I think it would be interesting to see you critically evaluate the drawbacks of the cards you suggest to give tips on why you wouldn’t use it in decks, Misleading signpost is an all star mono blue rock but due to it costing and creating blue mana anything beyond that just gives it too many stumbling blocks for example. A defence for 2 mana rocks is they can be fetched way easier if you’re playing a heavy tutor strategy. In the last year I’ve been experimenting with removing all unconditional/fast tutor effects to give way to the high volume of cards we’re getting. Be cool to see your opinion of increasing variance in decks, personally it keeps games fresh and gives me way more enjoyment in the long term and space to keep iterating.

[@natethebad]

I love how many interesting effects exist on the 3 mana rocks! Cursed Mirror is by far my most played one, but Ancient Cornucopia is great as an incidental lifegain piece in multicolor decks, Bandit's Haul puts in work as a slow advantage engine in decks with a lot of interaction, and Progenitor's Relic is neat in Kindred decks to suprise flash in a Lord or other effect. Also, I would love it if someday the "dragon Monument" cycle gets completed with the enemy colors, those are real fun to play with at very low power level tables! Thanks for the video, I will definitely be looking into adding the Misleading Signpost to one or two of my slower blue decks!

[@lunondisposable5382]

I know it's more than $5 now but I'm appalled that Patchwork Banner is just _uncommon._ It's replaced Command Sphere in all my tribal decks Thanks for introducing me to Skyclave Relic, that will go perfectly in my token deck. Getting 5-9 rocks for 6 mana late in a game sounds awesome!

[@SomeGuy712x]

Patchwork Banner is actually an uncommon.

[@lunondisposable5382]

@@SomeGuy712x You are correct thank you

[@Mischievous_Moth]

I'm honestly a big fan of Darksteel Ingot of all things for a few reasons 1. Nostalgia (I can own up to that, lol) 2. Indestructible (This is way more relevant than you'd expect, especially when someone at the table runs something like vandalblast) 3. Any color mana (Goes in literally anything.)

[@delta3244]

It feels like there ought to be a joke worth making out of the ambiguity between how these ten cards are 3 mana rocks worth playing, and how Sol Ring, Arcane Signet and Izzet signet are 3 mana rocks worth playing, but I couldn't figure out how to deliver the joke (everything I thought of felt too forced, like "how dare you clickbait us into watching a video for 3mins worth of analysis per card, when they got far less time each in favor of quantity!11!!1"). Anyone have any ideas on how it could've been done?

[@joedoe7572]

Bravo!

[@Fia_Faustus]

Skyclave relic mentioned!! I've got one of these in a Raff Capashen artifact tribal and it's super great for any artifact deck. If you run any spells that make artifacts cheaper, it makes it easier to pay that 6 mana early and it bumps up your constructs by 3. Plus I run a lot of Wavebreak Hippocampus / Moderation effects so having a lot of mana to be able to cast a spell every turn is super good

[@gaiden81]

Thanks! Skyclave relic for my Eldrazi deck and the Screwdriver for five color Ezio deck. I love your content, dude. Always giving me ideas I never considered.

[@MilkshakeSkunkette]

another few i love are Crowded Crypts, Strixhaven Stadium (hilarious if you actually sneak a win out with it ) and glistening sphere! \o/

[@nofilterneito]

Victory Chimes is a personal favorite mana rock in my Alela, Cunning Conquerer deck. As long as you tap it every turn you get access to much more mana considering that you’re playing on everyone else’s turns, and if somebody needs a mana, it’s a wonderful bargaining tool.

[@paperwatt]

I've always had my eye on Victory Chimes. Being able to do my own turn's ramp and still hold up interaction mana sounds so nice. Now's my chance to tempt people with Coveted Jewel. 6 mana for making 3 mana AND cards? If you can defend it it's amazing. And if you can't, you introduced a lot of fun into the game.

[@chickenwyngs3646]

Victory Chimes is gonna start going into more of my decks from all the times I've heard "I have a wrath I just need one more mana" and lost the game because of no wrath

[@enso8379]

I adore Sonic Screwdriver. I have it in so many decks. You can use it to abuse cards like The Master Transcendent, Yes Man, or things like Basalt Monolith. It goes into voltron decks or just decks like Zethi or Delina that need the commander to attack to get value. It just does a little bit of everything.

[@nakiado]

I love this series! It's just nice to get some perspective on cards I very often skip over when my scryfall fatigue gets the best of me 😅

[@obscurumveri5962]

Don’t sleep on Midnight Clock, in EDH it refills your hand in three turns if you’re playing in a pod of 4. Shuffles in the graveyard and overall puts in work. If I’m in blue, it’s is probably in the deck. It’s also like 50 cents.

[@Esticsmtgsidequest]

Honestly really recommend everyone watching this video because there are so many rocks that have done me well. Glittering stockpile has been nothing but a goat to me

[@mn6334]

Manascape Refractor is one of my favorites. There's so much utility there just being able to borrow *any* abilities from lands on the board and at worst it's a Fellwar Stone that can see your lands too. I also like Bandit's Haul from OTJ in any deck that has a commander that targets opponents stuff. I most recenetly put on in Nelly Borca but there's a ton of commanders that repeatedly target opponents stuff. Midnight Clock is also really cool but sometimes I don't consider that a mana rock because it goes away after a couple turns.

[@pyrojack8230]

I'm surprised you didnt bring up Replicating Ring. Its the perfect middle ground of "Make a ton of mana rocks" that Skyclave Relic is used for and "Proliferate so it pops off faster" that Glittering Stockpile wants to do. For those who arent aware of what it does, for 3 mana you can tap for any color of mana and on your upkeep you put a counter on the card. Once you reach 8 counters, on your upkeep, you sacrifice Replicating Ring to make 8 ARCANE SIGNET TOKENS! With Token Doublers or proliferate spam this can pop off in some very unique ways AND they tap for Snow mana.

[@XmortoxX1990]

Great list of cheap, goodies. I'll make a list to keep them in mind when building/upgrading a deck. I'll watch the other videos too.

[@Ryan-Nowicki]

Empowered Autogenerator is one of my favorite rocks. It cumulatively ramps itself every turn, and if you ramped with a 2cmc rock into it you get it on turn 3. I also regularly run palladium myr, and worn powerstone in my various ramp packages, but there is real value in reliably getting 6 mana untapped by turn 4 with a dozen or so rocks.

[@lachlanmeijer8706]

BETTER THEN A BOOSTER BACK BOYS LETS GOOOOO

[@jettblade]

The locket cycle is also a decent option if you're playing those colors because you can trade them in the late game to draw two cards. Altar of the Pantheon is a good option if you're focused on Devotion effects, it also has minor life gain if needed. Bonder's Ornament is an option for low drawing color combos like White and Red. The bobblehead cycle is another really good cycle if you kind of focus on that sub-type, this is an 'all or none' type of mana rocks. Cultivator's Caravan can be an interesting option as a late game beater, you could use creature you don't want to attack to power it. Heraldic Banner and Patchwork Banner are great in creature heavy decks of a certain color or tribe respectively. Laser Screwdriver is similar to Sonic Screwdriver but helps out different strategies. Orazca Relic is a good late game one off draw and life gain. Patriar's Seal and Relic of Legends are great with heavy amounts of legends in the deck. Rotating Fireplace and Strixhaven Stadium are great additions to any proliferate deck, Fireplace gets a ton of mana while Stadium can just win you the game.

[@davidsen1805]

I love this series! Glad it's back

[@KriticalKlippy]

Thanks for mentioning Glittering Stockpile! I recommend that to anyone building mono red or even a 2 color deck with red. ^_^

[@andrewsutherland1909]

Honored Heirloom is an overlooked 3 mana rock from Crimson Vow. It taps for any color and for 2 mana you can tap and exile a card from a graveyard. It's saved me a few times against graveyard synergy decks.

[@Maxor4411]

I have been playing Sonic Screwdriver for quite a while and have loved it. Victory Chimes and Bounty Board seem really interesting. Chimes is literally a card idea friends and I were talking about, of "can someone just gift me a mana, just 1 mana". And Bounty Board seems really interesting in that idea of like "yeah I may have this, but he has a bounty on his head so go attack over there".

[@jonathanrobinson8926]

Phial of Galadriel goes CRAZY in Renfield.

[@stealthstingray]

woah the celestus kinda slaps, thanks! and also I'm now thinking about putting the chimes in my ashling flame dancer list!

[@CironSkylark]

Great video, love your thoughts on each card and the overall vibe.

[@HiveFleetKronos40K]

the kicker effect on skyclave relic works with effects like panharmonicon, making the kicker effect go off multiple times. since you're creating tokens, token doublers like anointed procession go well with it too. imo i'd rate midnight clock over misleading signpost

[@sagatario58]

Highly reccomend looking at Patriar's Seal too, not a super expensive card and taps for any color, but can untap any legendary including your commander if you care about it. I use it in my Magus Lucea Kane deck as a way to get more taps and copies out of her.

[@nilsjonsson4446]

Great video and series. I love Skyclave Relic. The list is absolutely missing Midnight Clock and Cursed Mirror.

[@thecheeeeeeeseman]

i will say it's wildly fitting that the sonic screwdriver does the work of a manifold key, because it opens doors and stuff. flavor wise that's incredible.

[@simonblanchard2676]

Hourglass of the Lost is great, even in decks that don’t have graveyard synergies.

[@FlabbahJabbah]

I came here to say the same thing. the mass recursion is really good with a few decent targets

[@Melkorios]

I actually have a Xira, the Golden Sting deck that uses the bounty suite she can use (Chevil, Bounty Board, Bounty Hunter, and Termination Facilitator), the deck kind of has a "put counters on opponent's stuff" subtheme, and the bounty counters make a fun addition to that. Then I whip out the Kulrath Knight for giggles.

[@cadetheespeon]

Crowded Crypt is a great 3 mana rock in any deck that's sacrificing creatures often. It's ramp early and a large amount of bodies later on. As a bonus, the decayed zombies it makes even will sacrifice themselves after attacking if you need to push through the last few points of damage with a Blood Artist effect.

[@drenchthunderman5313]

Love this series! Keep them coming!

[@arkna6083]

Personal favorite, and imo most generally powerful 3 mana rock is Midnight Clock. The entire use case of ramp is to help you play out your cards. All mana rocks do this to a greater or lesser0extent, but after you've played out your cards, you need new ones. No other mana rock gives you new cards at a rate as efficiently as the clock, and the delayed wheel effect gives you time to play out the cards in hand beforehand to maximize the value off the wheel. The only place I'd hesitate to use it is in decks that are extremely deep into graveyard centric strategies, but even there it's not as bad as it looks. Hourglass of the lost and Forger's Foundry are also 2 that look promising but I haven't been able to test. Paying a worse rate for ramp in exchange for stapling card advantage to the rock is probably the best case scenario for 3+mv rocks, and both can potentially enable extremely explosive combo turns.

[@gametoaster451]

This is a great series, looking forward to the next episode!

[@TheValiantFox]

It isn't a mana-rock, but I think Pendant of Prosperity fills the same or a similar slot: 3 Mana and most of the time ramps you atleast once before its your turn again.

[@unseeliedream42]

love this series. keep them coming :)

[@arrowrandoman]

My first mana rock was Chromatic Lantern, and I used to throw that in every deck I could. most versions are less than 5 bucks, and right now, I use it in a Piracy Commander deck so I can fix for potential mana-costed abilities.

[@adamdavidson9717]

This is such a good series!! Keep it up!!

[@KamenRiderGreed]

I'm *SO* haopy you brought this back, not knly to include more ways to curve into the 5-mana Commanders I've brewed with, but, more importantly, it helps curb the light gambling addiction that's been developing since getting into this amd getting some good pulls out of Foundations Jumpstart.

[@Lukaz2009]

Delving into PDH has really given me an appreciation for 3 mana utility rocks. If you are in an artifact heavy deck (Or really any deck with how easy artifact tokens can be made now), Network Terminal should be an auto-include. The ability to cheaply loot a card by tapping an extra Treasure or Clue token CANNOT be understated! Honored Heirloom is excellent, granting you repeatable graveyard removal on a mana rock. The two Screwdrivers from Dr. Who have a lovely array of utility effects that should always find some use. Laser being able to goad a creature is peak.

[@ChadowT98]

Incredible video, I really love using unique cards with weird value/interaction, I just don't know how to find them whenever I'm making a deck using scryfall. I'd love if you made more of those if you wanted.

[@BeeCrab]

As a new subscriber, I look forward to seeing more better than a booster vids!

[@Nilmur2]

Chromatic lantern is also a good one, might be on the more pricey side. Helps mana fix when your running five colours, and they keep reprinting it every so often in commander decks since Warhammer, and it's currently in foundations jumpstart boosters

[@AkhoragilPZ3R]

Loved the video! Also since the Mana Crypt ban, the Screwdriver has great synergy with Mana Vault.

[@gybisss]

With Victory Chimes, you can provide other players with the 1 mana for Rhystic Study or other stax effects, which I think is cool. Some 3mv rocks I use and would recommend are Crowded Crypt, Eye of Ojer Taq, Wand of the Worldsoul

[@erikbladh7464]

I have both Victory Charm and Misleading Signpost in my Basim Ibn Ishaq historic flash deck. They are amazing in it!

[@tylerwilliams7203]

Thanks, now ima run victory chimes in ulalek eldrazi. There's a good chance that colorless can be used to flash in something with battlethopter or scattering cicada, or just a null blast

[@jojojo9240]

this is random but in eldrazi i personally play lots of ramp that ramps for more than one e.g. worn powerstone and avoid cheap ramp like mind stone.

[@AgentBacalhau]

Thanks for reminding me of the sonic screwdriver, I was looking for more evasion on one of my decks and being able to add some without spending an extra card slot feels awesome

[@Shimatzu95]

If you are in black there are a couple lands that can grant evasion. Otherwise rogues passage and access tunnel can also work depending on your requirements. Lastly, if you just need to attack riskfree dolmen gates is an old reliable.

[@AgentBacalhau]

@Shimatzu95 I'm in Mardu, Rogue's Passage is already in the deck, but the creatures I want to be evasive are usually too big for access tunnel. I added Mother of Runes and Skrelv, which double as protection as well as evasion, and the Eater of Virtue, in case one of my naturally evasive creatures gets blasted while it's equipped. Blade of the Oni is there as well, for menace.

[@Shimatzu95]

@@AgentBacalhau since you have black: the black gate(lotr), the lotr land that gives shadow (secret lair only i belive) and the og kamigawa land that gives a legend fear, all could do work

[@nickmiller3748]

I’ve used sonic screwdriver and glittering stockpile in the same deck. Holding up two mana is a decent deterrent and if I didn’t need to use it I could use the screwdriver to untapped the stockpile using its own red mana to get an extra stocpkpile. I was even able to do this to get th3 las5 counter needed to aetherize my opponents attack

[@taylormeisman7521]

Replicating Ring can give an explosive amount of mana later in the game. Everflowing Chalice could be good. It can act as a simple 2 mana mana rock, or you can dump a ton of mana in it late game for it to tap tons of mana later (and it's amazing with proliferate) Cryptolith Fragment enters tapped, but it drains each player every time you use it and once you're at low life it transforms into a flying deathtouch creature. Midnight Clock can help out if you draw it in the early game for temporary ramp and draws you 7 cards in 3 turn cycles

[@ManicLink]

Victory chimes is sweet, I've never seen that before. Will work well in my kykar zephyr awakener deck

[@derAlphabet]

I knew some of them 😊 I like this content, looking forward to this month

[@cis22]

A nice partner to Unstable Obelisk is Honored Heirloom. (It's a 3-mana artifact. Can tap for any color. Pay 2 and tap it, exile a card from a graveyard.) When including removal options in a Commander deck, I always find it necessary to at least have 1 piece of land destruction and at least 1 piece of graveyard hate just in case you find yourself in a game where you REALLY need that kind of interaction. Land destruction is pretty easy to include in your mana base with stuff like Ghost Quarter. And graveyard hate can come in the form of Scavenging Grounds. But if you have some really tight deck building restrictions for whatever reason, there's always Unstable Obelisk and Honored Heirloom to fall back on.

[@sobriquet835]

Skyclave Relic would go so well in Roxanne, starfall savant. You kick it and pay 5’ and if Roxanne is out the two tokens tap for two, so you can tap for 5 more again, making it essentially free to kick out with commander in play.

[@Digital_Butterfly]

I have a Marchesa, Dealer of Death deck and didn't even think to add Victory Chimes. I throw out so many cheap crimes that I'll probably get to use it every turn.

[@pretty_fly_for_a_jeskai]

I'm a big fan of Hourglass of the Lost. Its very hampered by locking into sorcery speed meaning it is not a reaction to graveyard hate or robust against interaction, but its interesting reanimation for permanents, and a number of times Ive cracked it to put 4-5 permanents back on my field on turn 6 or 7 in just random decks, but in my Master of Keys deck I can tend to mill out more of my 2 mana rocks than I like, dont have Lurrus or Sevinnes Rec, so I hail mary chuck Hourglass and put out four rocks for free, usually holding up a counterspell in case someone goes for my graveyard then and there.

[@Smokin_Choochang]

A trinket mage upload THIS late??? We basking in greatness 😎😎

[@thetrinketmage]

It was supposed to be done earlier lol

[@Diamior]

Yeah skyclave relic ! I feel validated rn. I used it in kella. Inquisitive prodigy. A simic pile, in which I want to use the commander's 2mana adventure to cover early ramp.

[@theonlylunarmage]

Utility synergy is so underrated for manarocks. Find those rocks that like it when your deck does its thing or helps your deck do its thing

[@pjmielnik]

Fantastic series! Especially this year when I feel the upcoming sets are gonna suck except a few of them Id much rather buy a "booster" of your recommendation

[@Daniel-mo7bj]

Please keep these up, I'm trying to be a more hipster deck builder and I feel like using just edhrec isn't a resource that cuts it for me anymore, I would love any video that recommends unknown cards that are actually amazing

[@Kyronex0]

It's a specific use case, but I have Victory Chimes in my Kruphix deck. Because Kruphix lets you store mana, Victory Chimes becomes one of the best mana rocks in the deck, since it gives you 4 every turn cycle

[@chummer2060]

I think Sonic Screwdriver sounds pretty perfect for God-Eternal Kefnet. It's a turn 3 play, extra scry is helpful, I usually knock someone out with commander damage so unblockable is good.

[@spookstheghost1253]

Take a look at the GOAT Hourglass of the Lost. Ramp that returns your best thing (and oftentimes a couple of other things) from the graveyard straight to the battlefield. Very useful and always puts in work in every game I have had it.

[@thetrinketmage]

Hourglass might have been a miss on this list! It seems good I just haven’t used it enough to rate it properly

[@Rococorico]

Surprised at no mention of Strixhaven Stadium for wide and/or evasive decks. Besides that I do love almost all of these. I plan on acquiring The Celestus for a deck that may end up running a few other Day/Night cards (oddly, no transforming ones!), so the tracking won't be meaningless, at least.

[@fakefake5160]

I might have missed it but you seem to have not talked about how phial of galadriel gives you an extra card off of wheel effects...

[@Murray5867]

Sonic Screwdriver is awesome!!!! I am running it in multiple decks!

[@greninja4175]

ITS BAAAAAAACK. i love this series

[@Zthewise]

I've been playing since August, my favorite mana rocks I found is Crowded Crypt. I run it in a zombie token Caesar deck and it is great for turning all the mooks I sacrifice during a game into a second army to throw at my opponents. But it doesn't quite count for less than a pack depending on the condition going from 3.20-9 dollars plus tax on TCG player.

[@aerrislag]

The one that I've use a lot is Decanter of Endless Water. As the third option when the deck has massive draw mechanic.

[@shekki3192]

Thanks reminding how good Sonic Screwdriver is, I have one but not in a single deck. I have almost all these rocks in some of my decks. Some other great 3 mana rocks are midnight clock it's great at start and late game, since you can tick it faster to draw new 7. Cursed mirror, you get best creature on the board with haste and goes around hexproof/shroud/ward. Relic of legends feels like 2 mana rock. Strixhaven Stadium is amazing in token decks to knock those life gain decks. I think people are sleeping on Scampering Surveyor, sure it's technically worse Solemn Simulacrum but there are some utility caves to search for, discovery lands, there is also one cave that can get rid of nonbasic land (cabal coffer, Glacial Chasm). If you play etb/blink with no green, it might be worth to add to deck along with Solemn.

[@gfkxj123]

Hourglass of the Lost from MH 3 command is just a Mass reanimation spell stapled to a mana rock that hits all nonland permanents. - $0.45 tap add white put a time counter on. tap Remove X time counters from Hourglass of the Lost and exile it: Return each nonland permanent card with mana value X from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.

[@SeamanMajora]

I like the Borderpost cycle from Alara Reborn. They aren't super amazing, but can be utilized in certain decks.

[@goten3268]

victory chimes is such an auto include in Renari, Merchant of marvels. Thanks for the recommendation!

[@Kaiterra]

Misleading Signpost sounds great. Decks with a lot of interaction should also consider Bandit's Haul from OTJ for good incidental draw power

[@187nags]

don't forget about Dragons Hoard if you are playing a dragon deck. mana rock that taps for any color as well as allowing you to draw a ton of cards

[@nimbleline]

the Carnelian Orb of Dragonkind does massive work, tapping for red and granting creatures like Dragonhawk haste

[@Phonk-vo4oi]

I’ve never seen Victory Chimes before and I instantly love it for Clues!

[@evolutionXXVII]

My favorite mana rock of 2024 is seance board. The most I've tapped it for so far is 7 in my Vren deck. Bonkers.

[@airsoftingwrong]

Wahoooo better than a booster is back!?!?!