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For example, Brainspoil, has converted mana cost 5 with Transmute for 1 colorless and 2 black mana, and if you choose to transmute it, you pay the mana cost and discard it, then search your library for anything converted mana cost 5, reveal it, and put it into your hand. You can only Transmute as a sorcery.
Magic: The Gathering zones. At any one time, every card is located in one of the following "zones": Library: The portion of the player's deck that is kept face down and is normally in random order (shuffled). [30] Hand: A player's hidden hand of cards that can be played. If a player has more than seven cards in hand at the end of their turn ...
A magic point, sometimes known as a mana point, often abbreviated to MP, is a unit of measure that indicates either or both the amount of magic that can be utilized by a user, and the amount of energy that they can harness to perform magic. A magic point system is the most common method used to regulate and thus limit the number of spells that ...
Onslaught Block marked the end of many traditional elements of Magic: The Gathering. It was the last block to feature the old-style card faces or a storyline set in Dominaria until the release of the Time Spiral block. However, this was not apparent in October 2002 when the set was released.
[5]: 138 For instance, an artifact creature that costs 4 generic mana and has 'Affinity for artifacts', would be free if the player casting it controls four or more artifacts, whereas a sorcery with a printed cost of 4 generic mana and 1 blue mana, will cost a single blue mana regardless of whether its caster controls four or five (or more ...
Cycling cards allow a player to discard that card and pay a mana cost to draw a new card, effectually replacing the card with a new one. [9] In Urza's Saga, the cost for cycling is always two colorless mana, but other costs were used when it appeared in subsequent sets. Echo is a mechanic that requires the player to pay the casting cost for a ...
Mental Magic is a format in which cards may be played as any card in the game with the same mana cost. [105] Mini-Magic is a constructed variant where decks are built with a maximum card limit of 15 and a maximum hand size of 3. Because of the small deck size, the state-based action causing a player to lose when they attempt to draw a card from ...
The trading card game Magic: The Gathering has released a large number of sets since it was first published by Wizards of the Coast.After the 1993 release of Limited Edition, also known as Alpha and Beta, roughly 3-4 major sets have been released per year, in addition to various spin-off products.