Splitting the Powerstone
Sorcery
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact.
Create two tapped Powerstone tokens. If the sacrificed artifact was legendary, draw a card. (The tokens are artifacts with "
: Add 
. This mana can't be spent to cast a nonartifact spell.")
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- The Brothers' War
- Price
- $0.11
- EDHREC rank
- #20927
Splitting the Powerstone puts two tapped Powerstone tokens on the battlefield — each taps for one colorless mana that can only be spent on artifacts or spells, effectively adding two mana to your artifact-heavy gameplan at sorcery speed for three mana. The cost is real: entering tapped means no immediate acceleration, and the colorless restriction makes it dead weight outside artifact or colorless-payoff decks.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Splitting the Powerstone is a Commander card through and through — the format's slower pace, artifact-synergy commanders, and four-player dynamics give the Powerstone tokens time to pay off over multiple turns. In Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer it's functionally unplayable; those formats demand mana on the turn you cast it, and no competitive deck wants two tapped, restricted rocks for three mana. Vintage has better artifact mana by orders of magnitude. Splitting the Powerstone earns its slot only in Commander, and only in decks that can spend colorless mana freely — artifact commanders like Breya, Etherium Shaper or Emry, Lurker of the Loch where the tokens immediately fuel casting costs.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.11 bulk tier
At $0.11, Splitting the Powerstone is deep bulk — pick it up without a second thought if the deck calls for it. Bulk artifact staples don't hold speculative value, but this one doesn't need to: it's cheap enough that the only question is whether it earns a slot, not whether it's worth buying.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.