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Tapping land for mana is an activated ability. The only differences between mana abilities (any ability that adds mana to your mana pool as part of the resolution) and non-mana abilities is that mana abilities don't use the stack. It's still an activated ability, though, and can be prevented by this, or Stony Silence.
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Posted By: NoobOfLore (1/23/2012 12:58:33 PM)
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Tempted to run this to shut down all the Sword of ____ and ____ I seem to keep running into, equipping after all is an activated cost =D
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Posted By: Arcel (3/2/2012 11:35:30 AM)
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Alright, who stole Starscream's signature weapon?

http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Null-ray
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Posted By: Arachnos (4/16/2012 8:41:02 PM)
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@werewolf65

I respectfully disagree. A land's mana ability is an activated ability (see Comprehensive Rules 605 "Mana Abilities"). Newer basic lands do not actually have any text (and the older ones are from before the colon was even introduced), but non-basic lands with basic types (such as Breeding Pool) and Dryad Arbor have reminder text that spells out the implicit mana ability of a basic land, which includes the colon. CR 305.6 also specifies the mana ability of a basic land type. Other lands that produce mana, such as Tree of Tales, have their mana abilities spelled out in the same way.

CR 605.3 states that the rules for playing an activated mana ability are the same as playing any other activated ability, except that it doesn't use the stack. I don't see any exception for this particular case. It looks to me, then, that Null Rod locks out artifact lands too.

@TheWrathofShane

Uh... what? This ... (see all)
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Posted By: adrian.malacoda (5/14/2012 9:36:41 PM)
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MY EYES! THE ROD DOES NOTHING!
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Posted By: Shadoflaam (5/8/2011 3:03:34 PM)
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lol flavor text
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Posted By: OverfiendSurprise (7/15/2010 1:35:30 PM)
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The rod! It does nothing!
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Posted By: draco_nite (5/7/2011 9:12:52 PM)
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Die affinity! Die!
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Posted By: rctoons (1/19/2011 7:20:35 AM)
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Lurv it how it is supposed to do nothing, but the picture is like 'FLARG IMMA DO SOMETIN"

Also, great in Mirrodin against artifact lands-they're like, "IMMA USE AFFINITY" and you'll be like "OH YEAH ONLY CAST FROGMITES" and they'll be like "...touche"
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Posted By: Superllama12 (2/23/2011 3:31:32 PM)
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epic flavor text xD
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Posted By: GengilOrbios (6/21/2011 11:39:25 AM)
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