Grim Monolith

Artifact

This doesn't untap during your untap step.

{T}: Add {C}{C}{C}

{T}: Untap this.

Combos

• Grim Monolith + Mana Reflection
• Dramatic Reversal + Grim Monolith + Isochron Scepter
• Grim Monolith + Nyxbloom Ancient

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Big Apple Highlander	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Premodern	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (46)

indieinside on 100% Dinosaur Tribal

17 hours ago

Profet93,

I agree with your thoughts on Crop RotationGC and the need to add in Urza's Incubator. So, I switched those two out. As for what land Crop Rotation would target, I feel like Gaea's CradleGC would have been the consistent grab 98% of the time.

When it comes to Grim MonolithGC and Mana VaultGC you are going to need to explain why you think Grim Monolith is weaker. I feel like they are practically equal.

You are right about Archdruid's Charm. The only time it gets used I am just fetching Hunting Velociraptor. It seems like Worldly TutorGC would be a better replacement. Going to change those out as well.

As for playing the deck, I got to play it quite a bit but found that it was way too slow early game. Mortlocke threw out so many good suggestions that I ended up cutting 12 cards to add in more ramp and mana. I haven’t played it yet since then because I am still waiting on those cards to arrive in the mail.

indieinside on making it difficult to color

1 week ago

Ultima, Origin of Oblivion is such a rude dude. Why are more people not playing this guy? Since you are already playing cards like Basalt Monolith, along with Voltaic Key, and Forsaken Monument and Grim MonolithGC why are you not playing Rings of Brighthearth. It gives you infinite all the things off of a lot of the cards you are already running.

Also Static Orb and Winter Orb power combo with Icy Manipulator because the actual ruling of Icy Manipulator is that you can tap those permanent right before your turn allowing you to play all the things, untapping Static Orb and Winter Orb last during the untap step.

Coward_Token on Gishath Spared No Expense!!!

3 weeks ago

"I could also see adding rituals to power out Gishath, though that's inviting being blown out by removal"

lol, if you really want to spare no expense (or your LSG contains cool people who don't mind proxying instead of spending an exorbitant amount of negotiable American currency on cardboard), you can just get

Mana VaultGC Grim MonolithGC Basalt Monolith

basically reusable rituals that can let you power out Gish as early as T5

DemonDragonJ on Commander/EDH Game Changers

3 months ago

Now that I have a visual representation of this list, I suppose that I should not be surprised that black and blue have the greatest number of game changers, since those colors always have been capable of having extremely powerful effects, and I also am not surprised that creatures and instants are the two card types with the greatest number of entries on this list, but I am slightly surprised that there are no less than seven lands that the commander panel regarded as being sufficiently powerful to warp games.

Also, how is it that Grim MonolithGC is on this list, when Basalt Monolith is not, especially when GM's untap ability has a higher mana cost than does that of BM? Is the lower casting cost of Grim MonolithGC really that significant of an advantage over Basalt Monolith?

Rhadamanthus on Grim Monolith + Forsaken Monument …

8 months ago

@hemalgiac: Grim Monolith costs {4} to untap. You're thinking of Basalt Monolith, which does cost {3}. That one would work.

hemalgiac on Grim Monolith + Forsaken Monument …

8 months ago

Sorry this is a late comment for this post, but Grim Monolith and Forsaken Monument do in fact produce infinite mana. Forsaken Monument states that when you tap a permanent (that means mana rocks too), you add an additional colorless to your pool. So with both permanents on the field, now when you tap Grim Monolith, you net 4 so now you can use 3 of the 4 floating colorless to untap the monolith and rinse and repeat. This will essentially produce infinite mana. So the person online was mistaken in the sense that he thought Forsaken Monument produces double mana. It just adds 1 more colorless to permanents when they're tapped. Again, I apologize this is late and you may have found an answer already.

CampbellStev on Titania

10 months ago

-1 Mana Crypt

-1 Jeweled Lotus

+1 Mox Diamond

+1 Grim Monolith (temporary replacement, might swap for Chrome Mox, Lotus Petal, Mana Vault, Veil of Summer, Natural State, etc

~

RIP THE GREAT BANNING OF 09-23-24

I await the day of their unbanning / CEDH separate ban list

gzusvictory on Halvar, Divine Voltron

10 months ago

What are we replacing Mana Crypt with now that they banned it today? Some that come to mind that we could do include Mana Vault, Grim Monolith, Mind Stone or Arcane Signet.