EDH Color Identity with Shrine of Burning Rage

Asked by ArachnidGoat 7 years ago

Since the card Shrine of Burning Rage is a colorless artifact, but it states "or play a red spell", Can this card be used in any color combo for EDH? Considering putting it in an all white EDH deck?

pskinn01 says... Accepted answer #1

Yes you can use it in mono white deck, color identity looks at color mana symbols. Mentioning a color does not change it's color identity (unless it says this spell is this color).

Don't know how good it will be in that deck, but you can use it.

903.4. The Commander variant uses color identity to determine what cards can be in a deck with a certain commander. The color identity of a card is the color or colors of any mana symbols in that card’s mana cost or rules text, plus any colors defined by its characteristic-defining abilities (see rule 604.3) or color indicator (see rule 204).

January 5, 2019 4:14 p.m.

Caerwyn says... #2

ArachnidGoat - in the future, please remember to hit the "Mark as Answer" button on a responsive post to indicate you no longer have any follow-up questions, as well as to allow other players with the same question to quickly identify the correct answer.

I have gone ahead and marked pskinn01's answer as accepted this time, but would appreciate if you could take care of this in the future.

Also, while not relevant to this particular question, I want to add one piece of information to pskinn01's post, because there is one niche situation with regards to colour identity that trips up new players, particularly if they are looking at the plain text of Rule 903.4 without a greater understanding of the rules.

Reminder text is not "rules text", so mana symbols in reminder text do not count toward colour identity. Right now, this only applies to extort--Basilica Guards has a mono-White colour identity, as the symbol appears in Extort's reminder text, not its rules text.

Again, not particularly relevant to your question, but I have seen this point of confusion enough that I always like to highlight it for players who are trying to get a grasp of what colour identity means.

January 9, 2019 8:45 a.m.