Stern Lesson
- Mana cost
- {2}{U}
- Type
- Instant
- Set
- The Brothers' War #64 (common)
- Price
- $0.31 USD
Draw two cards, then discard a card. Create a tapped Powerstone token. (It's an artifact with "{T}: Add {C}. This mana can't be spent to cast a nonartifact spell.")
Stern Lesson has 1 printing, first in The Brothers' War (2022). EDHREC ranks it #10,833 among Commander cards. It appears most in Golbez, Crystal Collector decks (1,503 on EDHREC). It has 3 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Stern Lesson most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Golbez, Crystal Collector: 1,503 decks
- Urza, Powerstone Prodigy: 457 decks
- Tawnos, Solemn Survivor: 409 decks
- Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer: 368 decks
- Gimbal, Gremlin Prodigy: 286 decks
- Urza, Lord Protector: 282 decks
- Dynaheir, Invoker Adept: 240 decks
- Urza, Prince of Kroog: 213 decks
Often played with Stern Lesson
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : You can use the {C} added by a Powerstone token on anything that isn't a nonartifact spell. This includes paying costs to activate abilities of both artifact and nonartifact permanents, paying ward costs, and so on.
- : Powerstone tokens are a kind of predefined token. Each one has the artifact subtype "Powerstone" and the ability "{T}: Add {C}. This mana can't be spent to cast a nonartifact spell."
- : Although all the cards in The Brothers' War that create Powerstone tokens create a tapped Powerstone token, entering the battlefield tapped isn't part of the token's definition. Notably, if you create a token that is a copy of a Powerstone token, the token copy won't enter the battlefield tapped.