Cryptolith Rite

Enchantment

Creatures you control have "{T}: Add one mana of any colour.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Historic Brawl	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (49)

Poly_raptor on Advice for a Green/White EDH …

3 months ago

DemonDragonJ it depends how powerful you want it to be. Chord of Calling is much more powerful than Shared Summons in my opinion. It depends on how powerful you want the deck to be.

Shared summons is 5 mana for sorcery speed creatures into hand, wheres as CoC allows you to cheat mana with convoke, gets you an ETB and is instant speed, essentially meaning it can give sudo haste as it can be cast on an opponent’s endstep. Avenger of Zendikar along with your Cathars' Crusade just before you get to untap could be a game ender.

Enduring Vitality is good ramp, i like effects like that. Cryptolith Rite is another good option, or Elven Chorus from Lotr.

capwner on

4 months ago

Neat build! First card I see is Acidic Slime, that's a +1. My only thoughts are to include some channel cards like Boseiju, Who Endures and Shigeki, Jukai Visionary, maybe even Twinshot Sniper (depending on how many Kinnans there are in your meta :)). Also some creature ramp options you might consider are Orcish Lumberjack and Tinder Wall, as well as the Spirit Guides, these are all fast mana which will help power out Ruric Thar early, which means damage triggers online during crucial development turns and potentially a lot of extra damage. Cryptolith Rite could be good as well, it's noncreature but hopefully this comes down before Ruric and can even net mana immediately like a rit. Last recs would be Dosan the Falling Leaf to provide additional counterspell protection, and Vorinclex  ^Flip I think is just an amazing value card/body/finisher that I think would make a lot of sense in here.

DemonDragonJ on How Good is Atalan Jackal?

4 months ago

Bookrook, that is one additional creature that can attack or block, and Cryptolith Rite is useless if I have no creatures on the battlefield, whereas Enduring Vitality actually does something, on its own.

DemonDragonJ on How Good is Atalan Jackal?

5 months ago

wallisface, there are two reasons for which I would choose Enduring Vitality over Cryptolith Rite: first, it is a creature itself, which gives it excellent synergy with my creature-focused Ghried deck, and, second, it has self-recursion, which I feel makes it easily worth 1 additional mana over the non-creature enchantment; does that not make sense?

wallisface on How Good is Atalan Jackal?

5 months ago

DemonDragonJ

• Why Enduring Vitality when Cryptolith Rite is a whole mana cheaper?

• Either of those cards look terrible so just pick whatever one you don't want.

DemonDragonJ on Chromatic Lantern or Joiner Adept?

5 months ago

griffstick, I am sorry, but I must disagree, as Chromatic Lantern has been very useful, to me, in various situations; how can anyone dislike such amazing mana fixing?

Also, I would prefer Enduring Vitality over Cryptolith Rite, since that card can actually work, on its own, rather than requiring other cards to have any impact upon a game.

griffstick on Chromatic Lantern or Joiner Adept?

5 months ago

Chromatic Lantern and Joiner Adept should not be up for discussion. They both suck.

• They are only good cards on turn two.
• They provide almost no additional mana. Making them both even worse late game.

However Cryptolith Rite provides ramp and fixing. And in some cases it's a ritual effect if deployed late in the game. This card wins games in a similar fashion that Dockside Extortionist did.

DemonDragonJ on Chromatic Lantern or Joiner Adept?

5 months ago

DarkKiridon, why are you being so rude?

TheOfficialCreator, how does Cryptolith Rite provide additional mana?