Syntax to specify mana cost in deck
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Posted on Sept. 30, 2014, 2:53 p.m. by hyperlocke
Is it possible to add syntax to specify/change mana cost of cards in your deck?
For example, if you want Avatar of Woe
to be displayed in the 2CMC slot or if you want Kitchen Finks
to be displayed as 
.
My mana diagrams look really cluttered and often show colors I'm not playing (outside of hybrid cards).
hyperlocke says... #3
I do that already. It's not that I have problems figuring out land distributions and such, it's more of an aesthetic problem.
Take this deck's color pie for example:
Flingin' Counters 'round the Place Playtest
Casual
SCORE: 3 | 4 COMMENTS | 418 VIEWSThis is a Simic deck, but from the look of it, you would expect a five-color deck.
The same deck on deckstats.net:
That's an extreme example, of course. But even
Withering Pestilence Playtest
Casual
SCORE: 0 | 0 COMMENTS | 155 VIEWSlooks to be black with a good splash white, although the deck doesn't run a single white mana source. The "splash" comes from just 3 Stillmoon Cavalier s. This looks silly in the Mono-Black hub.
As for 
-spells, yeah, this would be silly. But I will never cast Avatar of Woe
for 
, so why does it have to be in the 8CMC slot?
I know this isn't a huge issue; as I said, it's more of an aesthetic problem. But I think it would be a good feature to have in a future update.
September 30, 2014 4:06 p.m.
Femme_Fatale says... #4
More on the mana pie, the mana pie doesn't actually count multiples of the same symbols in the pie. If you have Empty the Pits , it only counts it as a black card with one black symbol, not 4. Then there is card ability costs as well ... but that is most likely really hard to do due to card descriptions never being the same.
CommanderOfBolas says... #2
the bar graph shows the denoted cost of a card, not what it could be. that is why spells like Rakdos's Return and Mind Grind only show up in the 2cmc spot. if you had it your way, they would fill every spot. as far as hybrid mana goes, simply ignore the white in the case of Kitchen Finks . just treat the white as though it were green.
September 30, 2014 3:04 p.m.