For me, one of the most puzzling changes in Magic is the Colorless mana symbol. The numbers in circles seemed to be a lot easier to represent Colorless mana. I.E.:
3CC now is the same as 5 before
It saves space on the card as well. Take Draco. The cost is 16 on that card, but it probably would not be reprinted these days
because the cost would be rendered as CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC nowadays.....can someone help me understand this ruling?
C is the symbol used to denote colorless mana. Cards like Sol Ring will generate C from here on out. In the casting casting cost it means that you must provide specifically colorless mana for it, not any mana.
X can be paid using any type of mana.
Using your example: 3CC can't be cast using RRRRR while 5 can
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The key thing to know is that 3CC is not the same as 5. When used in costs, the numbers in circles are generic mana symbols, and they always have been. A generic mana symbol can be paid with any type of mana. A cost of 5, for example, can be paid with any combination of colored and colorless mana you could possibly think of, as long as they add up to 5. However, a cost of 3CC means it requires at least 2 colorless mana in order to pay it properly. I can spend RRRR to cast something like Ur-Golem's Eye, but that mana won't work if I want to cast Thought-Knot Seer. I would need to come up with at least one C in order to do it.
W may only be paid with white mana. U may only be paid with blue mana. B may only be paid with black mana. R may only be paid with red mana. G may only be paid with green mana. C may only be paid with colorless mana. 1 may be paid with white, blue, black, red, green, or clolorless mana.
Ahhhh okay, I get it now. guess they'll come up with a new basic land type too, or just have cards that supply it like that Sol Ring up there.
They already came up with them. Wastes They are a common in Oath of the Gatewatch, are in the landpack of the fatpack and have no type. Also all cards that produced colorless mana before still do it and in future reprints they will have the new symbol C
I like to explain it as nothing has actually changed regarding old mana.
The only difference is that specifically colourless mana now features in costs and that coulourless mana has gotten its own symbol. Earlier the same symbol was used for colourless mana (generated mana) and generic mana (part of mana costs).
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Ahhhh....I guess they added that when the Eldrazi cards came out. hmmm....I totally get it now. they'll have to reprint every Eldrazi card though because with that new symbol, the Devoid keyword is useless.
Ahhhh....I guess they added that when the Eldrazi cards came out. hmmm....I totally get it now. they'll have to reprint every Eldrazi card though because with that new symbol, the Devoid keyword is useless.
Whyever do you think that would that be nessessary? Devoid makes card that would normally be colored colorless. That doesn't mean, that normally colorless cards aren't colorless anymore, or that the new symbol for colorless costs is nessessary to make a card colorless. Colorless is the absence of anything giving the object a color, the presence of the colorless symbol won't make anything colorless.
Ahhhh....I guess they added that when the Eldrazi cards came out. hmmm....I totally get it now. they'll have to reprint every Eldrazi card though because with that new symbol, the Devoid keyword is useless.
The new mana symbol has nothing to do with the old Eldazi or devoid. Devoid was used in the same set as the new mana symbol.
Devoid turns Drowner of Hope from a blue card into a colorless card.
Ahhhh....I guess they added that when the Eldrazi cards came out. hmmm....I totally get it now. they'll have to reprint every Eldrazi card though because with that new symbol, the Devoid keyword is useless.
The new symbol has little to do with what devoid does, it has a totally different purpose and it doesn't replace it in any way. Devoid is used to make colorless a card that would otherwise be colored because of its mana cost. The cards that have the new symbol in their cost are not colorless because they have that symbol, they're colorless because they don't have colored mana symbols. In theory, cards could be made that have both colored and colorless mana symbols in their cost, but if they don't have a characteristic-defining ability like devoid, they will be colored.
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3CC now is the same as
5 before
It saves space on the card as well. Take Draco. The cost is 16 on that card, but it probably would not be reprinted these days
because the cost would be rendered as CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC nowadays.....can someone help me understand this ruling?
C is the symbol used to denote colorless mana. Cards like Sol Ring will generate C from here on out. In the casting casting cost it means that you must provide specifically colorless mana for it, not any mana.
X can be paid using any type of mana.
Using your example: 3CC can't be cast using RRRRR while 5 can
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U may only be paid with blue mana.
B may only be paid with black mana.
R may only be paid with red mana.
G may only be paid with green mana.
C may only be paid with colorless mana.
1 may be paid with white, blue, black, red, green, or clolorless mana.
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They already came up with them. Wastes They are a common in Oath of the Gatewatch, are in the landpack of the fatpack and have no type. Also all cards that produced colorless mana before still do it and in future reprints they will have the new symbol C
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The only difference is that specifically colourless mana now features in costs and that coulourless mana has gotten its own symbol. Earlier the same symbol was used for colourless mana (generated mana) and generic mana (part of mana costs).
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Nope, this will likely not happen unless there is a flavorful reason for it in the set (like with Kozi's brood in Oath).
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Whyever do you think that would that be nessessary? Devoid makes card that would normally be colored colorless. That doesn't mean, that normally colorless cards aren't colorless anymore, or that the new symbol for colorless costs is nessessary to make a card colorless. Colorless is the absence of anything giving the object a color, the presence of the colorless symbol won't make anything colorless.
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The new mana symbol has nothing to do with the old Eldazi or devoid. Devoid was used in the same set as the new mana symbol.
Devoid turns Drowner of Hope from a blue card into a colorless card.
Kozilek, the Great Distortion is still a colorless cad.
If they reprinted all of the old Eldrazi they'd have the exact same cost, the new colorless symbol wouldn't appear on any of them.