Mana and Symbols
Reading the costs and symbols printed on a card.
- {W} {U} {B} {R} {G}
- One mana of white, blue, black, red, or green.
- {1} {2} {3} ...
- Generic mana, payable with any color or colorless.
- {C}
- One colorless mana specifically.
- {X}
- An amount you choose as you cast the spell.
- {W/U} (hybrid)
- Payable with either of two colors.
- {2/W}
- Payable with white or two generic mana.
- {W/P} (Phyrexian)
- Payable with white or 2 life.
- {T}
- Tap this permanent as part of a cost.
A card's mana value (formerly converted mana cost) is the total amount of mana in its cost, counting {X} as zero.
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