When Sin Prodder's ability activates and reveals a land card, can your opponent(s) have you put it into the graveyard?
Asked by 2ndscotch 8 years ago
According to the rules I downloaded it says that lands are not spells and can't be placed on the stack. Thus, it has no mana cost. Unlike cards with 0 mana cost such as tormunds crypt (sp srry). It also says that attempting to pay an unpayable cost is an illegal action.
Rhadamanthus says... #2
The key thing to know is that a Mana Cost and a Converted Mana Cost are different things. A Mana Cost is the set of symbols in the upper right corner of a card: 
, 
, 
, etc. A Converted Mana Cost is the sum of all those symbols, expressed as a number: 5, 2, 0, etc. Cards with no Mana Cost, such as lands, have a Converted Mana Cost of 0. If your Sin Prodder reveals a land then an opponent can send it to your graveyard and will be dealt 0 damage.
June 28, 2016 12:08 a.m.
AwesomeOctopus says... #3
lands have no casting cost because they are not cast. Therefore, their converted mana cost is 0. the same is true for tokens on the battlefield, and suspend spells. so yes your opponent can force you to mill a land at the cost of 0 life. any card that has no mana symbols in the upper right hand corner or a 0 there has converted mana cost 0 (side note: tokens are not technically cards, but they still have converted mana cost 0 for anything that checks that)
acbooster says... Accepted answer #1
Remember to link all cards with double brackets.
Sin Prodder
Tormod's Crypt
Firstly, Sin Prodder's ability doesn't activate, it triggers. Activated abilities always are written as "cost: effect". Secondly, land cards have no mana cost, which means that for cards like Sin Prodder or Pain Seer that care about CMC, a land's CMC is 0.
Playing a land is a special action you can take once per each of your turns unless an effect gives you extra land drops like Summer Bloom or Azusa, Lost but Seeking. This action does not use the stack and cannot be responded to.
June 27, 2016 7:32 p.m. Edited.