Brand new to the game. I came across Blacker Lotus upon my travels and am not able to quite figure how to play it properly.
First of all, I'm just playing with my friends trying to get the hang of everything and I'm not about to rip up this card, hopefully that's ok. But what i'm really wondering is, when you activate this cards ability, do you just get four mana of any one colour each time its your turn? Do you continually tap this card (don't see how you could if its ripped up) each turn to activate it, and then add four more mana each turn? Or do you just have a bunch of little pieces of this card that you now use as your mana and you can throw down four of any colour each turn? I'm just a little confused and any clarification would be much appreciated.
Here's an interesting Un-rules manager question for someone to play Rosewater on, though: Should each piece be considered an exiled card for Processor purposes and similar?
Here's an interesting Un-rules manager question for someone to play Rosewater on, though: Should each piece be considered an exiled card for Processor purposes and similar?
Quarter cards, so you could get two bottom halves when you wish after using two. Two top halves wouldn't do anything because you left the rules in exile!
Keeping in mind what FourDogs said about the fact that the cards from the Unglued and Unhinged sets are not legal in any sanctioned formats, and often have effects that the rules don't really support, I should point out that the text "Remove the pieces from the game afterwards" is significant to the effect.
Prior to the release of the Magic 2010 set and the rules update that went along with it, to "remove [something] from the game" meant to move it to a zone called the removed-from-game zone (The card AWOL even makes fun of the fact that there was an increasing number of things that could bring something back from the "removed-from-game" zone.) The Magic 2010 rules update changed the terminology and this zone is now called the exile zone, and the action of moving something to this zone is referred to as exiling that thing. All cards that were printed before this update with the wording "remove [something] from the game" received errata that changed their text to "exile [that thing]". You can see this change on older printings of cards like Swords to Plowshares. The Un-cards didn't receive these errata because they weren't designed to work precisely with the rules, hence why Blacker Lotus sill uses the "remove from the game" terminology.
So the original intent of the card's wording is that the pieces of the card (and presumably, Blacker Lotus as a permanent) aren't on the battlefield after you have used it the one time, and hence you can't use it again later.
Blacker Lotus is a reference to Black Lotus, which you sacrifice as part of activating its ability and thus also can't use multiple times (without other effects that can bring it back, at least) so it stands to reason that its Un-set counterpart is also not reusable.
Here's an interesting Un-rules manager question for someone to play Rosewater on, though: Should each piece be considered an exiled card for Processor purposes and similar?
I'm going to go for the buzzkill interpretation and rule that an exiled piece of a card isn't the same thing as an exiled card. If there were effects that could interact with exiled pieces of cards (Un-set #3 mechanic?) then sure, but not otherwise.
It's hard to tell, but I think there may be something else in the original question that hasn't been addressed yet: Lands and mana are different things. Mana is the resource you use to pay for spells and abilities, and lands are the most common source of mana (there are also some spells and creatures that can make mana, as well as some weird lands that can't make mana). Whenever you tap a land to add mana to your mana pool, the mana is basically floating out there waiting for you to spend it. If you don't spend it before the end of the current step/phase of the game then it goes away. When Blacker Lotus and other cards add mana to your mana pool, the mana doesn't stay in the pool permanently. If you don't spend it now then it won't come back later.
It's hard to tell, but I think there may be something else in the original question that hasn't been addressed yet: Lands and mana are different things. Mana is the resource you use to pay for spells and abilities, and lands are the most common source of mana (there are also some spells and creatures that can make mana, as well as some weird lands that can't make mana). Whenever you tap a land to add mana to your mana pool, the mana is basically floating out there waiting for you to spend it. If you don't spend it before the end of the current step/phase of the game then it goes away. When Blacker Lotus and other cards add mana to your mana pool, the mana doesn't stay in the pool permanently. If you don't spend it now then it won't come back later.
Brand new to the game. I came across Blacker Lotus upon my travels and am not able to quite figure how to play it properly.
First of all, I'm just playing with my friends trying to get the hang of everything and I'm not about to rip up this card, hopefully that's ok. But what i'm really wondering is, when you activate this cards ability, do you just get four mana of any one colour each time its your turn? Do you continually tap this card (don't see how you could if its ripped up) each turn to activate it, and then add four more mana each turn? Or do you just have a bunch of little pieces of this card that you now use as your mana and you can throw down four of any colour each turn? I'm just a little confused and any clarification would be much appreciated.
Or, they're flour petals. They only work if you say "he taps me." or "he taps me not" as appropriate.
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Prior to the release of the Magic 2010 set and the rules update that went along with it, to "remove [something] from the game" meant to move it to a zone called the removed-from-game zone (The card AWOL even makes fun of the fact that there was an increasing number of things that could bring something back from the "removed-from-game" zone.) The Magic 2010 rules update changed the terminology and this zone is now called the exile zone, and the action of moving something to this zone is referred to as exiling that thing. All cards that were printed before this update with the wording "remove [something] from the game" received errata that changed their text to "exile [that thing]". You can see this change on older printings of cards like Swords to Plowshares. The Un-cards didn't receive these errata because they weren't designed to work precisely with the rules, hence why Blacker Lotus sill uses the "remove from the game" terminology.
So the original intent of the card's wording is that the pieces of the card (and presumably, Blacker Lotus as a permanent) aren't on the battlefield after you have used it the one time, and hence you can't use it again later.
Blacker Lotus is a reference to Black Lotus, which you sacrifice as part of activating its ability and thus also can't use multiple times (without other effects that can bring it back, at least) so it stands to reason that its Un-set counterpart is also not reusable.
Edit:
I'm going to go for the buzzkill interpretation and rule that an exiled piece of a card isn't the same thing as an exiled card. If there were effects that could interact with exiled pieces of cards (Un-set #3 mechanic?) then sure, but not otherwise.
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I understand. Very helpful, Thank you.