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Prismatic Geoscope
Card Information
Type: Artifact
Mana Cost: 5
CMC: 5
Part of the Reserved List: No
Set: Commander 2016 (C16)
Rarity: Rare
Collector Number: 55
Oracle Text
This artifact enters tapped. Domain — {T}: Add X mana in any combination of colors, where X is the number of basic land types among lands you control.
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Format Legalities
Card Rulings
- November 8, 2016
You can activate Prismatic Geoscope's mana ability if you have no basic land types among lands you control, but it won't produce any mana.
Source: wotc - November 8, 2016
The colors of mana that Prismatic Geoscope can produce aren't related to the specific basic land types among lands you control. For example, if you control a Plains and an Island, you can activate Prismatic Geoscope's ability to add {R}{G}.
Source: wotc - November 8, 2016
To determine the number of basic land types among lands you control, look for the Plains, Island, Swamp, Mountain, and Forest subtypes among the lands you control. Count each subtype that appears one or more times toward the number of basic land types among lands you control. This number can't exceed five.
Source: wotc - November 8, 2016
How many lands you control of a particular basic land type is irrelevant to a domain ability, as long as that number is greater than zero. As far as domain is concerned, ten Forests are the same as one Forest.
Source: wotc - November 8, 2016
Prismatic Geoscope can't produce colorless mana.
Source: wotc - November 8, 2016
Most nonbasic lands don't have basic land types, even if they produce colored mana. For example, Caves of Koilos is neither a Plains nor a Swamp.
Source: wotc - November 8, 2016
Some nonbasic lands do have basic land types. Domain abilities don't count the number of lands you control—they count the number of basic land types among lands you control, even if that means checking the same land twice. For example, if you control a Tundra, a Blood Crypt, and a Forest, you'll have a Plains, Island, Swamp, Mountain, and Forest among the lands you control. Your domain abilities will be maxed out.
Source: wotc
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