Am I playing celestial dawn right?
Asked by Dreadwhite509 12 years ago
This enchantment Celestial Dawn makes everything the caster has white. It changes all the lands to plains, and all mana symbols in all costs of all cards in your deck, hand and permanents under your control to the plains symbol. As far as I'm concerned it seems like a way to cast anything with a converted mana cost as long as I have the mana for it. Like I have 3 plains and 2 colorless lands. I can cast blue spells so long as they cost 5 or less. If that's true, then this may be one of the few cards (the only one I know of) that changes the entire of your deck. Woah ;)Am I using it right tho? Cus there's some weird rule changed on the mtg website that seems to negate all this cards effects, so what does it really do? Besides change everything to white?
Not sure were you saw that it changes the mana symbols on your cards, it just makes them color white, but their mana cost are still the same, you can still cast them with white mana since white mana is now mana of any color.
Changing your spells to "white" means that anything that affects an specific color "such as protection from white" would now apply to this cards
February 5, 2013 2:06 p.m.
Epochalyptik says... #3
Note that white mana is not converted to mana of any color. "Mana of any color" doesn't exist - mana is always either colorless or one of the five colors. Rather, Celestial Dawn 's controller may now spend his or her white mana as though it were mana of any color.
February 5, 2013 2:08 p.m.
Epochalyptik is right, I didn't explain myself really clear, in those cases you just got to be careful in which color you select to add to your pool and don't get screwed by not having the correct amount of mana of a single color in order to play whatever you want to play during the turn
February 5, 2013 2:14 p.m.
Epochalyptik says... #5
In cases where an effect actually says "add one mana of any color to your mana pool," you are correct. In the case of Celestial Dawn , all the mana is still white, and it can just be spent as though it were any color.
February 5, 2013 2:23 p.m.
Rhadamanthus says... #6
The reason Dreadwhite509 thought Celestial Dawn changs mana symbols is because that's what the Mirage printing and Sixth Edition Printing say it does.
Whenever you're looking at any older card, especially a weird or complicated one, it's important to check up on the most recent Oracle text, which can always be found on Gatherer.
Epochalyptik says... Accepted answer #1
It doesn't change any mana symbols. It merely makes your permanents and cards white (lands become Plains instead) and allows you to spend white mana as though it were mana of any color.
In your example, you would have five Plains because Celestial Dawn converts all your lands to Plains. Because of Celestial Dawn 's last effect, you can effectively cast a spell by paying its CMC in white mana. White mana can be spent as though it is mana of any color, so it will satisfy any colored costs.
February 5, 2013 12:27 p.m.