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not Horrible i ran a few in my domain deck worked out ok.

I made exactly the same card in YMtC a few years ago, only without the sacrifice part :D
Of course that was before all these WUBRG shenanigans...

The cantrip also makes this card fun with Esperzoa. It nets you a card for the jellyfish's drawback.

this is best used in a time sieve/open the vaults deck. for a free card and an artifact in play. Then when you play open the vaults all the draws on the kaleidestones in your graveyard activate again making sure that you can have unlimited turns with time sieve.

I have no idea why, but this may be my favorite card. My first deck ideas were all based around artifacts and Esper stuff and Kaleidostone was always a part of those decks. Works great with Esperzoa (bounce each upkeep), Master Transmuter (if there's nothing else to do, bounce your Kaleidostone and draw for the win), Master of etherium (the boost is always nice) and last, but not least, Tezzeret (making this little cute thing a 5/5 freakish killing machine sure is fun)

That being sad, i love my little Kaleidostones.
Antinormal out.

Also useful for playing Maelstrom Archangel in a deck that can't afford to splash any other colours. And two mana to draw a card isn't really bad, if you're playing a colour that has difficulty with getting extra draws.

I bought a box of Conflux and instantly made a 5 colour deck.
These are brilliant. 2 mana for an extra card, and it only helps out later on.
On the odd times I dont have 1 mana of each colour by turn 5, these usually pick up the slack.

Cantrips, filters mana, what's not to love?

@machtoung i play a progenitis deck it is far easier just playing 3 corlors elvish piper(4) mindwrack leige(4) diabolic tutor(3) i can get progenitis from my library turn 5.

dont *** around with these trying to get progenitals, just use pipper,tutors and dramatic entrance.

At the time, those cards weren't in Standard so i was looking for ways to accelerate it. But now that the piper's back, I can see that being the way to do it.

when i tap the mana required and "break" the kaleidostone, the mana produced from it... is it permanent mana that i can draw on for the rest of the match?

It's the missing trigger to the Legacy Weapon!

@Pesti1ence: "when i tap the mana required and "break" the kaleidostone, the mana produced from it... is it permanent mana that i can draw on for the rest of the match?"

No. There's no such thing as "permanent mana". I don't think you understand how mana and mana pools work. This is a little simplified, but it should be all you need to know:

Say you have an Island. When you tap it for mana, it adds to your mana pool. This called a "mana ability," and nobody can respond to it. This means that your opponent(s) can't say "HERP DERP I CAST WRECKING BALL TARGETING THAT LAND BEFORE YOU GET THE MANA." You tap for , and is added to your mana pool instantly.

Then, in order to cast a spell (say, Preordain), you announce that you're casting it (say, "I cast Preordain"), then pay its cost. You can only pay mana costs with mana in your mana pool. When you pay that cost, the mana you spent on it is emptied from your mana pool (which makes sense--if you only tapped one Island, you don't have a spare floating around after you cast Preordain).

Any mana left in your mana pool empties out at the end of each step and phase. That means if you have leftover mana (maybe you tapped an Izzet Boilerworks for mana and didn't spend the ), it'll vanish between different parts of the turn. I'm not going to go into steps and phases here, but you might want to look it up--this means that if you tap the Izzet Boilerworks during your precombat main phase before you attack and cast a Preordain, then the leftover vanishes before combat starts, which means you can't use it to do something fun during combat like cast Lightning Bolt. This also means that any mana in your mana pool goes away at the end of your turn.

So how does this relate to Kaleidostone? Well, if you've read through all of this so far, then you should have a new understanding of mana. When you activate Kaleidostone's ability, you're adding mana to your mana pool, just as if you were tapping an Island or that Izzet Boilerworks. This mana can be used to pay costs, such as the mana costs of spells. (You could use it all at once to cast something like a Fusion Elemental, or you could use it to pay different parts of other costs.) When you spend the mana on a cost, then it vanishes from your mana pool. Any of the you add that you don't spend by the end of a step or phase vanishes from your mana pool.

So just like how tapping an Island doesn't give you "permanent mana" for the rest of the game, using Kaleidostone's ability doesn't either. Like all mana in the game, it's added to your mana pool, so it goes away when you spend it or when the various phases and steps of the turn end.

sunburst cards have this thing in their pockets.

I like the card for what it does, but I hate it when people pile these things (along with the chromatic filters and things like Elsewhere Flask) only because of the "Draw a Card" clause. Yes, if you like/need artifacts on field or have some crazy recursion combo (Glissa, the Traitor) or simply need to splash a color, go ahead and go nuts. But the draw effect alone is a crap reason to run it.

If a card only cantrips (Only draws one), it isn't helping you short of costing mana to make your deck one card thinner. It is simply replacing itself from your hand (i.e. cycling) and nothing more. If you would replace that card with something that actually steers you in the direction of winning, you would have (fate/randomness aside) drawn that card instead and have had more mana to use it.

So please please please, don't look at that "Draw a card." as "OMG! CARD ADVANTAGE!!1!" when you aren't even using this or any other cantrip card's full effect. /rant

Seems like it should have been printed in Fifth Dawn.

This card is so much fun, I love it.

I run a few of these in a casual metalcraft deck with Etched Monstrosity. An artifact cantrip for {2} is more than worth it to achieve metalcraft (or boost affinity for artifacts) in the early game without card disadvantage, and as soon as I can afford to play Etched Monstrosity, I should have enough artifacts anyway. Best of all, Etched Monstrosity is a good artifact creature even without this, so both cards are worth it even if I don't get both at the same time.

Oh, and nobody har mentioned how beautiful the art is?

It's a handy tool for all sorts of cards, and since it requires no colors, can really help get out that Fusion Elemental or Maelstrom Archangel that much quicker.
The fact that it replaces itself means, even though it's one use, you really aren't losing much when you drop it. Not card advantage, really, but still useful.

Fun if you have one or two Etherium Sculptors out. Then you can throw it out for 1 or 0 mana, which essentially becomes a free card if you cast them ahead of time. Good for if you feel like splashing mana for crap like Lavalanche or any of the Sliver Legends or a Child of Alara or an Etched Monstrosity or a Conflux or Reaper King or Door To Nothingness or Progenitus or a Fusion Elemental or a Horde of Notions or a Maelstrom Archangel or a...............

Well... It's pretty! That's all I can really say about it.