Five Hundred Year Diary

Legendary Artifact — Clue

Five Hundred Year Diary enters the battlefield tapped.

{T}: Add {U} for each Clue you control.

{2}, Sacrifice Five Hundred Year Diary: Draw a card.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (2)

legendofa on Would an Artifact Version of …

2 weeks ago

DemonDragonJ Right now, the only artifact that can reliably dump out blue mana (specifically) is Five Hundred Year Diary, which is restricted by the number of Clues you have. Other "any color" artifacts like Empowered Autogenerator or The Eternity Elevator, for a couple of new examples, are slow to get rolling. So I would say there's pretty much no precedent for an artifact that quickly and reliably produces more than one, maybe two blue mana. My takeaway is that no artifacts have that restriction because no artifacts exist that would have that restriction.

Stepping into your response to Idoneity, green is allowed to be much more flexible in when and how it produces mana than any other color, especially blue. Cards that produce lots of mana of any color, even creating only a single color at a time, have a lot of potential power--a lot of cards with the word Lotus in the name have been banned, restricted, or errata'ed one way or another. So my guess is that the designers decided mass mana production is fair as a late game effect, but want to heavily restrict it for the early and mid game. It's worth noting that every new card (first printed in the last four years) that can produce three or more mana costs 3+ mana to cast, has an additional cost for the mana, or is heavily restricted for what it can be used for.

king-saproling on Urza's Rocking Rugs

9 months ago

Ha great concept. What do you think of these? Luck Bobblehead, Powerstone Shard, Heartstone, Five Hundred Year Diary, Victory Chimes, Lithoform Engine, Adric, Mathematical Genius, Drift of Phantasms