Small Basalt Monolith

[Godder]

Using Basalt Monolith as a guide, I thought something like the following could be a minor addition to the master list. Artifact acceleration is considered fine as long as it doesn't produce more in a turn than it costs, so hopefully there won't be any power issues here. For example, Sol Ring was too good, but Worn Powerstone and Ur-Golem's Eye are fine.

Small Monolith
2
Artifact
~This~ doesn't untap during your untap step.
Tap: Add 2 to your mana pool.
2: Untap ~this~

Alternatively, same cost, but the following abilities:

~This~ comes into play with a charge counter on it. (This is optional, since it may be safer if it can't be used until one's next turn...)
Tap, remove a charge counter from ~this~: Add 2 to your mana pool.
Tap: Put a charge counter on ~this~.

I will add a current wording once a direction is chosen, but I'm easy to either. A name and flavour text would be useful too!

Current Wording
Granite Monolith
Artifact
{2}
Granite Monolith comes into play tapped.
Tap, remove a charge counter from Granite Monolith: Add {2} to your mana pool.
Tap: Put a charge counter on Granite Monolith.
Granite Monoliths are a source of energy only for those who have the required patience.

Edit: CiPT, name, flavour text.

[dandan]

Seeing as how Basalt Monolith needs some very clunky errata to avoid repeated tapping/untapping, I don't think this is a good idea.

If you make the untap cost 3 that solves most of the problems (assuming Power Artifact doesn't get printed).

[Godder]

Basalt Monolith received errata because that's how things were handled back then. These days, they'd just restrict Power Artifact. However, if that's a problem, the other idea looks fine to me, so I can just use that.

[Jacob Orlove]

Actually, Relic Bind was the combo piece of choice, and they randomly decided to errata it too.

[Godder]

Relic Bind received errata because of Basalt Monolith, but Basalt Monolith received errata because of Power Artifact. I think Relic Bind + Mana Vault and similar cards probably worried people at the time...

[Godder]

Bump

[Matt]

As far as the initial mana boost, doesn't this kind of slap Worn Powerstone & Co. around? Play it, charge it, and on tuirn three you have five mana. Is that too fast?

[dandan]

This would be OK (i.e. slower) if it CIPT or cost 3. Wizards efforts since Urza's block show they are wary of anything that can give a 2 mana boost although with multi-coloured mana you can get a 2 mana boost as a one-shot deal with the Prism.

[Godder]

It's not like people use Ur-Golem's Eye (or Sisay's Ring), while Worn Powerstone and Thran Dynamo at least saw use when Tinker was legal. I also think Pentad Prism is the superior accelerant, if speed is the only use for the card. However, playing safe seems to be the done thing, so I made it CiPT.

[Matt]

Telling me some accelerant was good enough to hang with Tinker isn't exactly assuaging my fears. 

The Urza lands are a defining element of Standard right now. In Onslaught block people even used [card]Temple of the False God[/card]. I think that even with CIPT this would be played in Standard.

[Godder]

It's not so much that those accelerants were good enough to hang with Tinker, it's that they saw no play in decks that didn't have Tinker and/or Metalworker. Much the same could be said for Gilded Lotus. That said, I have no real problems with it CiPT, since it still looks playable.

[Godder]

24 hour clock.

Edit: Postponed at Matt's request.

[Matt]

Could we hold off the clock for a day or two? I have some flavor text that I'd like to submit, and is very cool (it's from one of the old, old Magic novel anthologies) - but I don't have it with me at the moment.