Swirling Spriggan

Creature — Goblin Shaman

(G/U)(G/U): Target creature you control becomes the color or colors of your choice until end of turn.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (3)

Neotrup on Bloom Tender

5 years ago

Some points of terminology. Every card and permanent has a converted mana cost or CMC, which is just a number (kind of an absolute value of sorts). It's calculated from the card's mana cost, which includes color. Not all cards have a mana cost, in which case their CMC is typically 0. Card color is typically derived from mana cost as well, unless it's a token (in which case it's defined by the effect that created it), has a color indicator (like Ancestral Vision), has a characteristic defining ability (like Ghostfire), or is otherwise having it's color altered (like with Swirling Spriggan).

Double-face cards are a big exception because while they don't have a mana cost, their CMC is defined by their front side (rather than being 0) and they usually have a color indicator (with the exception of the double-face and meld eldrazi from Eldritch Moon).

Newguy25 on Bloom Tender

5 years ago

Thank you! That makes more sense to me now. I was looking at a Swirling Spriggan + Bloom Tender combo.

sonnet666 on DFCs and Devotion

8 years ago

Just a couple nitpicky things:

The in-game term is actually "converted mana cost;" there is no such thing as a "calculated mana cost."

Converted mana costs don't use mana symbols, so the CMC of Breakneck Rider  ^Flip is 3, not . (For reference: Austere Command) It still won't add to devotion, but w/e.

Also the.beanpole, a permanent most certainly can add to devotion of a color that it isn't. For example, Swirling Spriggan doesn't stop having two green mana in its mana cost even if you use its own ability to turn it red.