Mana cost

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Mana cost, formerly known as casting cost, is the mana payment required to play a spell. It is found in the upper-right corner of a Magic card and is a characteristic of that card. Unlike converted mana cost, mana cost includes the colored mana symbols. Cards such as Charmed Pendant reference mana cost. Although cards like Fist of Suns change the amount and type of mana required to play a spell, they cannot change the mana cost.

The colored mana costs are specifically represented by Image:Manaw.gif, Image:Manau.gif, Image:Manab.gif, Image:Manar.gif, and Image:Manag.gif. They can also be generically represented as C, CD, CDE, or CDEF. These generic representations are useful when discussing cards or cycles in different colors that have similar mana costs. A few examples follow:

From the Comprehensive Rules
  • 104.3. The mana symbols are Image:Manaw.gif, Image:Manau.gif, Image:Manab.gif, Image:Manar.gif, Image:Manag.gif, and Image:Manax.gif; the numerals Image:Mana0.gif, Image:Mana1.gif, Image:Mana2.gif, Image:Mana3.gif, Image:Mana4.gif, and so on; the hybrid symbols image:Manauw.gif, image:Manawb.gif, image:Manaub.gif, image:Manaur.gif, image:Manarb.gif, image:Managb.gif, image:Managr.gif, image:Manarw.gif, image:Manawg.gif, and image:Manaug.gif; and the snow symbol Image:Manas.gif.
    • 104.3a Each of the colored mana symbols represents one colored mana: Image:Manaw.gif is white, Image:Manau.gif blue, Image:Manab.gif black, Image:Manar.gif red, and Image:Manag.gif green.
    • 104.3b Numeral symbols (such as Image:Mana1.gif) are generic mana costs and represent an amount of mana that can be paid with any color of, or colorless, mana.
    • 104.3c The symbol Image:Manax.gif represents an unspecified amount of mana; when playing a spell or activated ability with Image:Manax.gif in its cost, its controller decides the value of that variable.

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