colorless mana
Asked by student-of-life 12 years ago
Can colorless mana from say, a land card be used only for the colorless mana cost of a spell or can it be used for the mountain, plains, swamp, forest, or island mana cost of a spell also? I have been told both things.
Colorless mana from any source can only be used for the colorless cost of a spell.
For example, Reliquary Tower can only be used to fulfill the "1" requirement of Searing Spear, and you would need a red mana-producing source for the red requirement.
March 6, 2013 9:39 a.m.
Absinthman says... #3
What you call "mountains mana" or "island mana" is in fact called "red mana" or "blue mana". Nothing such as "mountain mana" exists. Colorless mana does not have a color, therefore can't be used as mana of any specific color. You may only use it to pay for mana costs or parts of mana cost written as numbers in a grey field.
March 6, 2013 9:40 a.m.
Ninja'd by Rhadamanthus. I even refreshed the page before posting to make sure nobody else had answered.
Are you magical, Rhadamanthus?
March 6, 2013 9:41 a.m.
Rhadamanthus says... #5
SCIENCE! Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
March 6, 2013 9:42 a.m.
I think you're confusing "colorless mana" and "mana of any color".
If a land/card tells you to add 1 colorless mana to your mana pool, it doesn't have color. It can't be used to pay for the red mana symbol in Shock, but it can pay for the colorless mana in Searing Spear.
Mana of "any color" (say, from Chromatic Lantern) is just that: any color it needs to be. It can be used to help pay for Lightning Bolt, for Necropotence, for Arbor Elf... Any colored mana symbol.
March 6, 2013 9:43 a.m.
student-of-life says... #8
I understand colorless mana. I was wonder because a friend told me you could use colorless mana to pay the colored mana cost of a spell. Another friend told me you could only use it to pay for the colorless mana part. all cleared up now. Thanks!!
March 6, 2013 10:14 a.m.
student-of-life says... #9
that is supposed to say "I understand mana of any color". DOH!!
March 6, 2013 10:15 a.m.
Schuesseled says... #10
Colorless Mana Can only be spent on spells that require colourless mana as part of their casting cost, Mana that doth have colour can be spent on spells that require that particular mana as well as any colourless requirement.
I.e Searing Spear requires 1 Red mana, and 1 Whatever mana.
March 6, 2013 10:44 a.m.
You're late to the party by about half an hour, Schuesseled
March 6, 2013 11:07 a.m.
vampirelazarus says... #13
I never make it to these on time.....
To recap, and add nothing really beneficial:
If a card produces colorless mana, that mana can only be used to pay for colorless costs.
Colorless costs can be paid for, however, by any color of mana. I.e. Gilded Lotus could be played by tapping 5 colorless mana, or 5 red mana, or 3 blue and 2 green.
March 6, 2013 11:12 a.m.
Schuesseled says... #14
Skyfolk?!?! no everyone else is unfashionably early.
March 6, 2013 4:21 p.m.
That's the most random accidental deck reference I think I've seen yet, especially when you consider the description of the deck.
March 6, 2013 4:30 p.m.
TappedOut's code is incredibly broken and when you try to tag some users it tags decks instead, if their name is in a deck name.
March 6, 2013 4:51 p.m.
Rhadamanthus says... #17
When a deck/user/card shares the same slug as something else, you can prefix it with "deck:", "user:", or "card:" inside the brackets to make it link properly.
Rhadamanthus says... #1
The colored part of a cost can only be paid for by colored mana. The colorless part of a cost can be paid for by either colored mana or colorless mana.
Let's look at an example: Molten Primordial costs 5RR. The RR part of the cost can only be paid for with RR mana. The 5 part of the cost can be paid for with any combination of mana you're able to come up with.
March 6, 2013 9:39 a.m.