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Originally posted by iaa@yep.com:
...letĄs suppose, 4-costing, can be paid with 2 red and 2 white, as-an-ex., but could also be paid with colorless mana? ...

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This I can't make sense of.

In any case, colorless means "having no color". So colorless is definetly not a sixth color.

I don't really understand the part of your question about colorless mana existing, because it seems obvious to me that it does. Sol Ring, Mana Crypt, Worn Powerstone, Grim Monolith, Mishra's Factory... even Apprentice Wizard! Are you suggesting that even though these cards don't produce colored mana in terms of the game rules, that the mana they produce would have to be colored?

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Originally posted by iaa@yep.com:
Sorry for this basic question, but it is a hard question to me: does colorless mana exist?
I mean... if there are 5 basic mana colors (blue, red, green, white, black), and artifact, letĄs suppose, 4-costing, can be paid with 2 red and 2 white, as-an-ex., but could also be paid with colorless mana? let's say, mana produced by colorless fonts, such as those produced by certain lands.
in affirmative case, isnt that a sixth colour?

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moot philosophical question, move along

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iaa
artifact creature

casting cost - 4

power 4 toughness 4

iaa casting cost can only be paid with colourless (coloured mana can be used to pay iaa casting cost).

just simply, guys, imagine that card.
according to that, no red, no black blue or white nor green mana could be used to pay that creature cost.
then, colorless mana, would be a mana type apart from coloured mana... or am I wrong?
that's what I meant.

and that is my doubt.

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generic petal 1
artifact
tap: add any color mana to your pool
generic petal can be payed only with generic mana

...for example.

But that kind of restriction would be difficult. There aren't enough generic mana producing lands and artifacts to support a series of cards that can only be played with colorless mana.

They sort of have something similar with where that Eldrazi land provies two colorless mana and can only be used on colorless Eldrazi spells. I think there might have also been mana where it could only be used for artifacts spells, as well? That would be the extent of it though and i would really would not expect Wizards to go full out with it.

I think it'd be cool for a mirrodin type of thing, where artifacts are in abundance. But it's out of flavor. The thing is, colored mana is more powerful; it can be green and it can fill in for generic. Generic mana can pay for generic costs, but it cannot fill in for green.
They'd have to flavor-text-explain away the reason about how some golems hate the mirrodin suns ( and colored mana) and only take their power from the surface of the planet (and colorless mana).

It'd be cool. Just won't happen, i think.

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Originally posted by TimeBeing:
Colorless is a type of mana but not a color of mana. So reflecting pool can make colorless but you can't use colorless to up a engineered explosives.

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Reflecting pool can ONLY be used if you control another land along side of it...

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Even if the process of creating generic mana is some vague alchemy that includes elements of the other colors, it's still a new color, as much as orange is a different color from both red and yellow. So it's either a nondescript amalgamation of colors or it's a "color" in it's own right.

Besides if we are going to start getting more technical than we should be; black and white are not colors.

I can't even tell if we're talking about Magic or science anymore.

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Originally posted by Sovarius:
Or it's just colorless.
Who said this alchemy is going to use elements of other colors? What if it's just colorless, non elemental, non aligned, invisble mana?

Besides if we are going to start getting more technical than we should be; black and white are not colors.

I can't even tell if we're talking about Magic or science anymore.

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Sol Ring really could be some sort of RW holy fire relic...