question about dimir infiltrators transmute ability
Asked by student-of-life 12 years ago
If I was going to use the transmute ability of a Dimir Infiltrator the converted mana cost is 2 correct or does it have to be a blue and a black?
hunter9000 says... #2
The card you search for only has to have a CMC of 2, it's colors don't matter.
April 6, 2013 11:06 a.m.
Rhadamanthus says... Accepted answer #3
"Converted mana cost" is the number you get when you add up the value of all the symbols in the mana cost. For Dimir Infiltrator that number is 2, so you can get anything that costs a total of 2 mana.
@Chubbub: He's asking about what cards he's allowed to search for, not the activation cost of the Transmute ability.
April 6, 2013 11:13 a.m.
Ohhhh, sorry about that. I thought he meant the cmc of the transmute cost.
April 6, 2013 11:25 a.m.
Transmute can find any card that is of converted mana cost equal to the card it's on (in the case of the infiltrator that's two), regardless of color.
It's quite a versatile ability, I wish it was on more or better cards.
Chubbub says... #1
It is a cmc of 3 to transmute. You have to pay 1 colorless, 1 black, and 1 blue mana to transmute, just like you have to pay 1 blue and 1 black to cast it. If it was an either/or situation, it would have a hybrid mana symbol.
April 6, 2013 10:56 a.m.