Ok, then I don't really understand this card. should I still use it?
June 26, 2015 11:26 a.m.
Colten_Lee says... #3
Well just about the best way to better understand a card is to ask questions and practice it with your playgroup..in my opinion.
June 26, 2015 11:44 a.m.
The card itself is great in a Goblin deck - Let's say you control 5 Goblin tokens, and have Brightstone Ritual and a Lava Axe in your Hand, and control only 1 Mountain. You can only produce 
with your Mountain, which is 
short of casting Lava Axe, but enough to cast Brightstone Ritual.
So, you cast the Ritual, and when it resolves, it looks at the number of Goblins you control and sees 5, therefore, it will add to your mana pool. That is enough to cast Lava Axe.
As a bonus effect, the Ritual also counts Goblins your opponents control.
June 26, 2015 11:47 a.m.
Rhadamanthus says... #5
What cards like Brightstone Ritual do is give you a temporary boost of mana beyond what you would normally be able to get from your lands.
Let's say you have 4 Mountains right now. That means you'd normally only have access to to use for playing spells and abilities. However, let's say you also have 3 Goblins on the battlefield. After you spend to cast Brightstone Ritual, you'll then a total of that you can use this turn to play stuff. That's enough for a good sized Dragon!
Note that the mana given by Brightstone Ritual goes away if you don't use it. It doesn't stay in your pool forever.
June 26, 2015 11:49 a.m.
Epochalyptik says... Accepted answer #6
The Q&A is not for deckbuilding advice; the scope of threads here is limited to rules interactions. Tips and tricks are fine, but they're not the focus of the discussion, and you can create a thread in the forums to ask about what cards to use.
Lands and mana are different things. Lands are cards (or, rarely, tokens). Most lands have a mana ability (for example, "
: Add 
to your mana pool") that allows you to produce mana.
Mana is an intangible resource that is used to pay many of the costs in the game. It isn't a permanent or a card type. When you add mana to your mana pool, that mana remains there until the end of the current step or phase, at which time it dissipates.
So lands often produce mana, but they are not the same thing. You don't put mana on to the battlefield. Mana doesn't exist in your library or hand. You can't search for mana. Effects that allow you to do something with lands will explicitly state "land(s)" and explain what it is that you're allowed to do.
Compare Pyretic Ritual, for example, with Explosive Vegetation. Pyretic Ritual produces mana. Explosive Vegetation allows you to do something with land cards.
June 26, 2015 11:56 a.m. Edited.
Gidgetimer says... #7
As people have been saying there is a difference between mana and land. The rules text have been removed from new basic lands for aesthetic reasons. The old lands make the distinction a bit clearer Mountain.
BlueScope says... #1
You seem to confuse mana with lands that produce them. Brightstone Ritual adds
to your mana pool, which is red mana, and then there's Mountain, for example - a land with the ability "
: Add 
to your mana pool".
June 26, 2015 11:24 a.m.