Editing Arabian Nights (section)

=== City of Brass ===
[[File:City of Brass.jpg|Taste the rainbow.]]

Aside from any form of lotus of moxen powered bullshit City of Brass was one of the best mana generation tools in the game. For most purposes it is generally now considered inferior to Mana Confluence, as there are situations where something like an Urborg is in play, Mana Confluence can give you mana without making you lose life (that specific example only generates black mana, which of course can also pay for generic costs). Additionally Mana Confluence doesn't hurt you if the land gets tapped for a reason other than you tapping for mana. That said, Mana Confluence can't tap use it's mana ability if there is preventing you from paying life, (e.g. controlling a Platinum Emperion or having less than 1 life). Additionally if you can win at instant speed and you need 1 mana to do it and are at one life, you can tap City of Brass for that mana and respond to the trigger that damages you and win using the mana from City of Brass with the City of Brass damage trigger still on the stack, where as tapping for the mana with Mana Confluence (if something like the Urborg situation above isn't around) will '''cost''' you life and will happen as you tap for mana, causing you to lose the game before you get do do that thing you could have otherwise won the game with. Lastly life loss can't be prevented where as damage can (or is at least life loss is much harder to, especially if it is a cost, as is the case with Mana Confluence).