To make a long story short, converted mana cost (also known as CMC) was replaced with the term: mana value. Today I want to take a look at what exactly a mana value is, why this change was made, and some of its most common rules interactions
But Chas, you say, You once wrote an entire article entitled I Hate The Reserved List ! Surely this is some kind of stunt designed to generate a massive amount of traffic for StarCityGames as 50,000 angry Magic players angrily scroll through your article, skim a few lines, and then shout at you in the comments section! To which I saywell, yeah, kind of
Still, this is a lot of power, especially if youve got high-impact creatures, Escape cards, and/or are stretching your mana
If we think about creature auras using quadrant theory, enchanting your own creatures is something thats great when youre in a winning board state, reasonable when youre at parity, risky during the developing turns of the game and actively bad when youre behind
Card not found (Saviors of Kamigawa (2005)) is an interesting card
