So is kind of a weird card. Let’s start things off by looking at its current Gatherer text: Sacrifice Lion’s Eye Diamond, Discard your hand: Add three mana of any one color to your mana pool. Activate this ability only any time you could cast an instant. So the main difference between the printed version […]
Category: Mana Abilities
Keyrunes Tips and Tricks
Reader suggestion time! Sort of. We got a submission from our Suggest a Rules Tip box about Keyrunes, and some of the tricky things about them. For example: You can throw down a Keyrune on turn 3 and immediately tap it for mana, just like you could a land, or another mana rock. As most […]
Deathrite Shaman Won’t Make Mana Without a Target
is making a splash in Modern lately, and sees some play in Standard due to it helping to slow down reanimator-type strategies, as well as giving some Zombie decks an extra way to bleed their opponent for the last few points of mana. One of the reasons that it sees a good deal of play […]
How Deathrite Shaman’s targeted abilities work.
Continuing the trend of fun one-drops that got a lot of questions, today we cover . Shaman’s got three abilities, and each one does something based on what you exile. Exiling sorceries and instants bleeds your opponent for 2; exiling creatures gains you 2 life; exiling lands makes mana. The problem here is, all three […]
You have to name a color when you add “one mana of any color” to your mana pool.
If something instructs you to add ‘one mana of any color’ to your mana pool, you have exactly five options: the five colors of magic. You can pick White, Blue, Black, Red, or Green, and you must name a color when you add ‘one mana of any color’ to your mana pool. You cannot add […]
Abundant Growth gives the land an extra ability, but doesn’t let it produce extra mana.
Green is never short of mana fixing when new sets are released, and Innistrad block hasn’t been the exception. When Innistrad came out, we had , then we got in Dark Ascension. One of the cards that accomplishes this role in Avacyn Restored is . It only costs one mana, fixes your manabase, and it […]
How the Palladium Myr + two Myr Galvanizers combo works to generate unlimited mana.
The / combo of having an unlimited amount of colorless mana in your mana pool can be attained with 1 Palladium Myr and 2 Myr Galvanizers that are untapped and don’t have summoning sickness. You can generate an arbitrarily large amount of colorless mana in your mana pool by taking the following steps, assuming the […]
What Reflecting Pool can produce.
‘s ability allows it to produce any one mana of a type that another land that you control could produce. First of all, in order for this ability to produce any mana you must control at least one other land that is capable or producing mana. Controlling just another Reflecting Pool will not work, as […]
What Reflecting Pool can and cannot do
‘s ability can make mana of any type of any other land that you control. There are six types of mana; white, blue, black, red, green and colorless. Other restrictions or abilities associated with mana are not part of its type and will not be applied to mana generated by Reflecting Pool. When determined what […]