Mana Bloom How does it work?
Asked by PlainsAngels 11 years ago
I am new to Magic and had a question during a recent game. I played Mana Bloom with 2 charge counters on it. My question is, each time that I take a charge counter off of Mana Bloom does this card turn into a land card for this turn or do I search my library and add one mana to my mana pool?
I hope this question makes sense...Thanks for the help.
A land is permanent that produce mana and mana is getting into a sort of pool where you can use it to cast and use ability that require mana.
What Mana Bloom does along with anything that add mana to your mana pool (ie. Sol Ring , Fyndhorn Elves ) it simply put extra mana into the pool until the next phase where the pool will be emptied.
November 19, 2013 10:12 p.m.
305.6. The basic land types are Plains, Island, Swamp, Mountain, and Forest. If an object uses the words "basic land type," its referring to one of these subtypes. A land with a basic land type has the intrinsic ability ": Add [mana symbol] to your mana pool," even if the text box doesn't actually contain that text or the object has no text box. For Plains, [mana symbol] is ; for Islands, ; for Swamps, ; for Mountains, ; and for Forests, . See rule 107.4a. Also see rule 605, "Mana Abilities."
605.3. Activating an activated mana ability follows the rules for activating any other activated ability (see rule 602.2), with the following exceptions:605.3a A player may activate an activated mana ability whenever he or she has priority, whenever he or she is casting a spell or activating an ability that requires a mana payment, or whenever a rule or effect asks for a mana payment, even if it's in the middle of casting or resolving a spell or activating or resolving an ability.605.3b An activated mana ability doesn't go on the stack, so it can't be targeted, countered, or otherwise responded to. Rather, it resolves immediately after it is activated. (See rule 405.6c.)
Hope this helped
November 19, 2013 10:18 p.m.
RedCloud2012 says... #4
Your mana pool receives mana from lands and artifacts , creatures and planeswalkers exc. The mana pool holds mana lent to it till the end of the phase your in. You use mana not land to pay the cost of casting. Tapping lands create's certain types of mana and fills the pool just like mana creatures or blooms can. Never search your library unless a card says you can do that or you will forfit the game in FNM or IQs or any organized play. Now that you understand the mana pool just read and do what the card says. Good Luck
November 19, 2013 10:30 p.m.
BrounieMan says... #5
Only cards with the word land on them are land cards...
Anyways, the mana pool is the place where all mana produced from lands, spells, or permanents goes (usually by tapping them out (winks)) after it's been produced, but before it is used to cast other spells, permanents, or in rare cases, to bring out a land. It is not actually represented by land cards, but is rather just there, waiting for you to use it. If you choose not to use it, however, it will simply disappear at the end of your turn, and you will have to activate other abilities (which don't use the stack, if you were wondering), again usually by tapping a permanent, esp. a land, if you would like to play a card with a mana cost.
Mana Bloom
, however, isn't a land. It is an enchantment, and requires you to remove a counter in order to activate its mana ability.
Oh, and just as a reminder, as RedCloud2012 says, please don't search your library in the middle of a game, unless instructed by a card, or else, not only will you not be able to play the card you search for, but you will probably simply lose the match for making an illegal move.
November 19, 2013 11:07 p.m.
Once you understand more of how the game works, the answer will be obvious. Let's review land and mana:
"Land" is a type that shows up on cards. Lands are (so far) the only kind of card that isn't a spell. You can, generally speaking, only play one land per turn. Lands usually produce mana, with a few exceptions such as Maze of Ith . Other than that, they just sit around on the battlefield.
Mana is an imaginary thing. There's no physical representation of mana. It's used as a currency to cast spells. There are five different colors of mana, and any of them can function as colorless mana. Mana only shows up when a card tells you to make it, and when it does, it goes into this special place inside your head called your mana pool, where mana sits until you "spend" it on spells. Your mana pool empties at the end of each turn, and between phases. All the mana in it, if there is any, is gone and wasted. Mana is mostly produced by lands, but it can come from other places: artifacts like Boros Keyrune , creatures like Sylvan Caryatid , planeswalkers like Xenagos, The Reveler , enchantments like Braid of Fire , or instants and sorceries like Dark Ritual and Seething Song .
So, with Mana Bloom , you would skip the middle man of a land or something like a Llanowar Elves and put a mana directly into your mana pool. It doesn't turn into a land, it doesn't let you search your library, it just puts a mana of any color straight into your mana pool.
Does that help? Sorry if I'm being too basic or it sounds like I'm talking down to you. I just feel it's important to understand the basics. Once you know how the game works, you can make pretty good guesses at how specific cases work.
November 19, 2013 11:42 p.m.
BashfulPanda says... #8
It's easiest to consider each land as having a tap ability "Add one (Color mana) to your mana pool"This is why cards like Ral Zarek or Arbor Elf can act as mana ramp.The mana "floats" until the end of the phase you added it to your pool and mana stays in your pool until you use it to play a spell or end that phase.
November 20, 2013 1:06 a.m.
TurboFagoot says... #9
Once you divorce the two concepts of "land" and "mana", and recognize them as two different entities, so much stuff becomes easier to understand.
smash10101 says... #1
First off, mana and lands are completely different things. Lands tap to add mana to your mana pool. Mana in your mana pool can be used to pay costs like the casting cost of a spell. Mana Bloom has an activated ability that lets you, once each turn, remove a charge counter from it in order to add one mana of the color of your choosing to your mana pool.
I hope this helped, and I would recommend reading some of the rules to better familiarize you with this sort of thing that is often confusing to new players.
November 19, 2013 10:11 p.m.