reflecting pool and thriving lands
Asked by koylucumert 1 year ago
so, I know that if you have 2 Reflecting Pool s and no other lands, they both can produce any color mana since they both see each other as "could" produce a mana of any color. how about thriving lands? lets say as an example Thriving Isle. lets say I have a thriving isle with the named color green, and a reflecting pool, and no other lands. can my reflecting pool produce mana of any color, since the isle "could" produce any color of mana if I named that color?
Slight edit to my response as it does not read as I intended.
Reflecting Pool does have a mana ability, but their mana generation is essentially 'undefined' until something else can make mana
June 29, 2022 9:01 p.m.
Rhadamanthus says... #3
koylucumert: An answer to your question has been up for a while. Since there don't seem to be any follow-ups or corrections to be made, I marked it as the "Accepted answer" so this topic can move out of the list of unanswered questions. In the future you can take care of this yourself using the "Mark as Answer" button on the response that you feel best answers your question.
Delphen7 says... Accepted answer #1
There are two rulings on Reflecting Pool that are relevant here.
First: 2 Pools do not make any color of mana because they don't have an intrinsic ability that could make mana.
Multiple Reflecting Pools won’t help each other produce mana. If you control a Reflecting Pool, and all other lands you control either lack mana abilities or are other Reflecting Pools, you may still activate Reflecting Pool’s ability — it just won’t produce any mana. (2008-05-01)
More on that here: https://www.mtgsalvation.com/forums/magic-fundamentals/magic-rulings/magic-rulings-archives/264014-reflecting-pools
Second: Yes, it'll be able to tap for the colors that you name as the Thriving lands have the ability to produce mana of that color
Any change to a land’s type or splicing of text into a land can affect the types of mana a land can produce. (2004-10-04)
June 29, 2022 8:56 p.m.