Question About Rakdos, Lord of Riots

Asked by VaultTechy 9 years ago

I couldn't find the proper forum for this (I assume there's some kind of ruling questions forum that I missed?) so I figured I'd ask here. I'm making an Eldrazi tribal EDH with Rakdos, Lord of Riots as the commander and I was wondering how his cost reducing effect works with the new "colorless specific" mana costs - example, if I deal 10 damage in a turn, can I cast Kozilek, the Great Distortion for zero, or for 2?

Asking because the deck leans heavily on getting Rakdos on the table early so there's little to no room for lands that produce colorless since RRBB is tricky enough to hit consistently on T4. Was hoping to fit in some of the new guys but if I have no way to cast that mana symbol then it wouldn't be worth it

Livingham says... #1

I'm pretty sure anything that reduces costs still reduces costs by generic mana rather than colorless mana, therefore Rakdos wouldn't allow you to play anything requiring wastes for free.

January 22, 2016 1:49 a.m.

Remyth says... #2

I would agree with Livingham. While I could find no definitive proof one way or another in a quick search, it makes the most sense to me. Also, there are several lands you can run that can tap for colorless or R/B. Just a thought.

January 22, 2016 2:14 a.m.

PookandPie says... Accepted answer #3

Cards that produce colorless mana on Wizard's Gatherer have updated Oracle text now: Sol Ring, for example. So you can see that the card's Oracle text has it producing now instead of . Before this block with the OGW Eldrazi, there was no real need to distinguish between generic mana and colorless mana, so these things used the same symbols on cards. This is no longer the case.

Rakdos, Lord of Riots Oracle text says it reduces costs by , not , therefore even if you dealt 10 damage in one turn, Kozilek, the Great Distortion would cost .

Wizards article here describes the change from generic to colorless so there's less confusion. Rakdos, Lord of Riots reduces generic mana costs, not costs requiring one colorless mana.

January 22, 2016 2:56 a.m.