You do need the 4 mana up front, but because it untaps those lands, you can still do stuff with your mana during that turn
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It's also pretty nifty to see The Temporal Anchor is the only artifact in the set using colored mana - this timey-wimey machine has clearly come from Magic's present rather than the period of The Brothers' War
But the thought experiment is much simpler (without loss of accuracy) if we just assume a supercomputer could create The Objective Power Ranking. Yes, Cubes can be other sizes, but for the sake of simplicity we only consider 360
If it is going to be tapped regardless, they might as well