Can Chromatic Orrery trigger color requirements like Sunburst or Adamant?

Asked by Polaris 4 years ago

As far as I know, the “you may spend mana as if it were mana of any color” line on Chromatic Orrery is unique. What I want to know is this: If you spend as, say, while casting Slaying Fire, will this count for the adamant requirement, or will the game still see it as you having spent ? In other words, does the "as if" just mean it can fulfill costs of any color, or does the game treat it as basically transmuting the mana when it's spent?

As a related question, will this let you spend colored mana on OGW costs, since colorless isn't technically “any color”?

Kogarashi says... Accepted answer #1

Spending {C} as though it was {R} doesn't change the fact that it's colorless, not red. Adamant would not apply.

From the Gatherer rulings for Slaying Fire:

• Adamant effects check what mana was actually spent to cast a spell. If an effect allows you to spend mana “as though it were mana” of any color or type, that allows you to spend mana you couldn’t otherwise spend, but it doesn’t change what mana you spent to cast the spell. (2019-10-04)

Additionally, colorless is not a color, so you can't spend mana as though it were specifically {C}.

August 11, 2020 10:36 a.m.