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Do lands have a mana cost?

See rule 203.1 and the glossary entries for "Colorless" and "Mana cost".
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Daniel W. Johnson wrote:

> Do lands have a mana cost?

Yes. They have a mana cost of 0. The entry for "Colorless" is somewhat
imprecise, saying "no mana cost" to mean "mana cost of 0".
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> See rule 203.1 and the glossary entries for "Colorless" and "Mana cost".

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Lands are not spells, but when you need them to have a mana cost them
have a mana cost of 0.

Exemple: If you animate you land tru a genju enchantment then someone
could play smother on it.
Or if a card was having a text like "Destroy all
permanent of casting cost X" and X is set
to 0. Then it you affect your land.

Carl

Daniel W. Johnson wrote:

>Do lands have a mana cost?
>
>See rule 203.1 and the glossary entries for "Colorless" and "Mana cost".
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Daniel W. Johnson <panoptes@iquest.net> wrote:
>Do lands have a mana cost?

Lands have no printed mana cost. The rules define them as having mana cost 0,
but it's not printed on the card. This means their mana cost and converted mana
cost is 0; it doesn't mean "they don't have a mana cost at all".

>See rule 203.1 and the glossary entries for "Colorless" and "Mana cost".

Looking... The "Colorless" entry is the one that's out of step. Should say
either "have no printed mana cost" or that sentence should Go Away and the
next should start off "Lands and artifacts are". Or the second sentence should
end in "have mana cost 0.". I'll note it up to them.

Dave
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