Could you cast Warping Wail for free if you have two Voracious Reader Flips in play?
Asked by SmugLookingBarrel 7 years ago
Warping Wail is an instant that costs 2 mana, one of which must be colourless. Can that colourless be paid for by colourless cost reduction like from Voracious Reader Flip?
Epochalyptik says... #2
Just for clarity, generic and colorless mana were never interchangeable.
Until recently you could produce colorless mana (mana with no color), but nothing explicitly required colorless mana as a cost.
Similarly, generic mana could not be produced; rather, "generic" referred to a cost that could be paid with any kind (any color or colorless) of mana.
This distinction is still true, except there are now costs that do require colorless mana instead of just generic mana.
acbooster says... Accepted answer #1
No. Voracious Reader Flip doesn't reduce the cost by , it reduces it by . Generic and colorless mana used to be interchangeable, but now there's a clear distinction. Things like Sol Ring that add colorless mana have been errata'd to show the symbols instead of a number.
October 20, 2016 9:35 p.m.