can I play the amonkhet monuments in a colorless brawl deck?
Asked by Smart_TJ 5 years ago
SO, I've been getting into brawl with my friend, so I was making a casual Traxos, Scourge of Kroog deck, and I was wondering about whether or not I can play the amonkhet monuments in it, they are colorless, and don't have colored mana, but they do reference a color, so I didn't know how that could work. Help Plz?
FancyTuesday says... Accepted answer #2
As Boza said the emphasis is on mana symbols in casting cost and rules text, excluding reminder text. Naming other colors does not affect color identity. For example, you can run Deathmark in a mono-black deck even though it mentions White and Green, and you can also run Crypt Ghast even though the keyword ability Exploit includes in its description a .
But there is something else color identity checks: color indicators. This is a colored circle to the left of the type field in cards that have no mana cost and faces of cards that don't have mana costs, and was formally rules text that said "this card is [color]." This doesn't matter in cases like Pact of Negation because the rules text goes on to include mana symbols, but remains of some importance for cards like Kobolds of Kher Keep.
May 30, 2018 12:17 p.m. Edited.
okay, got it. I've always found color identity a bit confusing, but I think I've got it better now. Thank you all!
Boza says... #1
The monuments are OK to play in a colorless deck.
Color identity works with the mana symbols in all parts of the card, except reminder text. For example, Zacama, Primal Calamity has a red, white and green color identity, which is the same as the card colors while Jodah, Archmage Eternal is all five colors in terms of idetity, despite being a tri-color card.
May 30, 2018 6:28 a.m.