Creating colored mana in a colorless commander deck
Asked by i0brendan0 2 years ago
I have Lotus Field on the battle field. My commander is colorless. Lotus Field specifically states "of any one color", but as my deck does not have a color, does that mean that Lotus Field specifically creates colorless mana, or would the mana be some sort of true 'colored' mana that I could not get a mana bonus from Forsaken Monument or be able to cast Warping Wail using only the mana from Lotus Field?
I've come across 2 different ways of dealing with this but I don't have a definitive answer myself. The first way is that Lotus Field creates colored mana that I can't use for colorless specific casting costs (such as the colorless cost for Warping Wail). The second way is that because my commander has a colorless color identity, any mana produced by "any color" immediately becomes colorless as "any" color is outside my color identity (which means I could pay for Warping Wail with Lotus Field, and get a colorless mana boost from Forsaken Monument).
i0brendan0 says... #2
Omniscience_is_life so that means I can't use Lotus Field to pay for colorless specific casting costs as it has to create colored mana?
Omniscience_is_life says... Accepted answer #1
There was a rule made several years ago allowing for you to make colored mana outside of your commander's color identity, so if you tap the Field for mana you may choose any color--but Magic considers colorless to not be a color (note well for cards like Commander's Sphere), so you may not add colorless mana with it.
August 6, 2021 10:39 p.m.