{"id":2373,"date":"2012-09-07T11:00:21","date_gmt":"2012-09-07T16:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/?p=2373"},"modified":"2015-02-05T16:03:41","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T00:03:41","slug":"you-have-to-name-a-color-when-you-add-one-mana-of-any-color-to-your-mana-pool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/2012\/09\/you-have-to-name-a-color-when-you-add-one-mana-of-any-color-to-your-mana-pool\/","title":{"rendered":"You have to name a color when you add &#8220;one mana of any color&#8221; to your mana pool."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If something instructs you to add &#8216;one mana of any color&#8217; 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 &#8216;one mana of any color&#8217; to your mana pool. You cannot add a &#8216;mana of not-yet-chosen color&#8217;, and have it function as whatever color you want later on, nor can you pick colorless. If you plan to float mana, you&#8217;ve got to make it known what mana you will have floating.<\/p>\n<p>A judge probably won&#8217;t blink twice if you tap 4 <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-content\/plugins\/lems-mtg-helper\/lems-mtg-helper-cardfinder.php?find=Reflecting+Pools&width=223&height=310\" class=\"jTip\" name=\"\">Reflecting Pools<\/a>, a <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-content\/plugins\/lems-mtg-helper\/lems-mtg-helper-cardfinder.php?find=Vivid+Grove&width=223&height=310\" class=\"jTip\" name=\"\">Vivid Grove<\/a>, and a <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-content\/plugins\/lems-mtg-helper\/lems-mtg-helper-cardfinder.php?find=Forest&width=223&height=310\" class=\"jTip\" name=\"\">Forest<\/a> to cast <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-content\/plugins\/lems-mtg-helper\/lems-mtg-helper-cardfinder.php?find=Primeval+Titan&width=223&height=310\" class=\"jTip\" name=\"\">Primeval Titan<\/a> without declaring what color the Pools were tapped for, but if you tap them to float 4 mana you aren&#8217;t going to use immediately, you&#8217;ll have to choose colors right then and there.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s Rules Tip written by<br \/>\nTrevor Nu\u00f1ez, Level 1 judge from Roswell, NM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If something instructs you to add &#8216;one mana of any color&#8217; 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 &#8216;one mana of any color&#8217; to your mana pool. You cannot add [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[71],"language":[1196],"class_list":["post-2373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mana-abilities","tag-reflecting-pool","language-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2373"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2658,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2373\/revisions\/2658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2373"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=2373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}