Bottomless Vault

Land   

Bottomless Vault comes into play tapped. You may choose not to untap Bottomless Vault during your untap phase and put a storage counter on it instead. , Remove X storage counters from Bottomless Vault: Add an amount of equal to X to your mana pool.

5E • ENDavid Seeley

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Legal in: Legacy,Vintage,Commander

Oracle Text (click to copy):

Bottomless Vault Land Bottomless Vault enters the battlefield tapped. You may choose not to untap Bottomless Vault during your untap step. At the beginning of your upkeep, if Bottomless Vault is tapped, put a storage counter on it. {T}, Remove any number of storage counters from Bottomless Vault: Add {B} to your mana pool for each storage counter removed this way.

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10/4/2004
It is considered "tapped for mana" if you activate its mana ability, even if you choose to take zero mana from it.
10/4/2004
This enters the battlefield tapped even if a continuous effect immediately changes it to something else.
10/4/2004
If the land is tapped by some external effect, no counters are removed from it.
10/4/2004
Counters are not lost if the land is changed to another land type. They wait around for the land to change back.
10/4/2004
Whether or not it is tapped is checked at the beginning of upkeep. If it is not tapped, the ability does not trigger. It also checks during resolution and you only get a counter if it is still tapped then.

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