Standing Stones
Artifact
, 
, Pay 1 life: Add one mana of any color.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- The Dark
- Price
- $0.81
- EDHREC rank
- #30567
Standing Stones enters tapped and produces colorless mana, which means you're paying two mana now to get one mana later — a tempo hole most decks can't afford. The only case for it is a mono-colored or heavily colorless shell that genuinely needs body count among its rocks, and even there better options exist.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Standing Stones is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but only Commander gives it any real home. Legacy and Vintage have access to Mox Opal, Ancient Tomb, and a full suite of zero- and one-mana rocks that make Standing Stones unplayable in those formats. In Commander, it occupies the bottom tier of mana rocks — it can slot into a budget mono-color deck that needs the 99th card, but Charcoal Diamond and its cycle siblings do the same job for the same price and are strictly analogous, with Everflowing Chalice and Thought Vessel offering more upside at similar cost.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.81 bulk tier
At $0.81, Standing Stones sits in bulk territory — you're paying for cardboard, not power. The price is unlikely to move in either direction given how many superior budget rocks exist at or below this price point.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.