Does All is Dust affect lands?
Asked by GlissasTraitor 9 years ago
I am confused with this. All Is Dust says ALL COLORED PERMANENTS. A land IS a permanent. However somebody I was playing insisted it does not affect lands. It doesnt specify "Nonland"... it just says "All permanents". Am I right or wrong on this?
GreatSword says... Accepted answer #2
It does affect lands, as they are permanents. However, most lands are colorless. A permanent's color is determined by it's casting cost in the upper right corner of the card. A land does not have a casting cost, so it does not have a color.
Color can also be determined though by a card's text (Ghostfire, Pact of Negation, etc) or color indicator (Dryad Arbor).
December 19, 2014 12:05 p.m.
Also Scytec color identity is only a function of the Commander format. In Commander, a card such as Noble Hierarch has a color identity of Green/White/Blue but for the purposes of every other thing in Magic that cares about what colour that card is, it's green. And only green.
A card which said "Destroy all blue permanents" would not destroy a Noble Hierarch even though a Commander without blue in their colour identity couldn't include one in the deck.
December 19, 2014 12:23 p.m.
Fair enough. Sorry, I have been kind of dedicated to the Commander format for about 2 weeks now, so I've been focusing on that pretty much exclusively. :p
December 19, 2014 12:25 p.m.
No worries. You're becoming dedicated to the best format of Magic!
December 19, 2014 12:41 p.m.
Rhadamanthus says... #6
An object's color is defined by its mana cost, the color indicator in its type line (that dot you see on Insectile Aberration Flip, etc.), and effects that specifically set or change its color.
No land other than Dryad Arbor naturally has any of these things, so unless an effect from another card is giving them a color (Painter's Servant, Treetop Village when it's a creature, etc.) then All Is Dust won't affect them.
Scytec says... #1
Lands are indeed permanents, but they are not colored. A "colored" card is a card with a color identity which is determined by the symbols both in the CMC (converted mana cost) and by symbols in the cards body. Rules text, such as Extort and lands ability to tap for mana however, are unaffected by this, so technically, lands are colorless permanents, and as such, unaffected by All Is Dust.
December 19, 2014 12:02 p.m.