Display Mana Cost Correctly.

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Posted on Feb. 23, 2012, 4:27 p.m. by swamp_water

Some places cards mana cost are shown as

2,1W,1Uor1,2U

Can we show the mana costs correctly

2WUor 1UU

thanks

swamp_water says... #2

so 2,1W,1U is the same as 2WU

February 23, 2012 4:27 p.m.

yeaGO says... #3

How would you do the split mana costs?

February 23, 2012 4:30 p.m.

swamp_water says... #4

Split mana is 3W/UW/UPhrexian Mana is 1WP

As derived from the MTGO short cuts.

http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Digital/MagicOnline.aspx?x=mtg/digital/magiconline/howdoi/talk

February 23, 2012 4:39 p.m.

swamp_water says... #5

Split mana is 3W/UW/U

Phrexian Mana is 1WP

February 23, 2012 4:39 p.m.

swamp_water says... #6

use curly brackets... arg

February 23, 2012 4:39 p.m.

swamp_water says... #7

Hey just thinking. Would this change the charts then or does your charts take in account 2W is WW?

February 23, 2012 4:49 p.m.

yeaGO says... #8

So wait that's 3 colorless, one w/u, one w/u?

February 23, 2012 5:22 p.m.

swamp_water says... #9

No it should look like this 3{W/U}{W/U}

February 23, 2012 5:31 p.m.

yeaGO says... #10

I dunno, that's why I comma separate them because frankly I don't find the rules for displaying mana make any consistent sense, given the split mana.

February 23, 2012 5:33 p.m.

swamp_water says... #11

phew I had to use html chars to get the curly brackets to work.

February 23, 2012 5:33 p.m.

swamp_water says... #12

I can see what you mean.

February 23, 2012 5:34 p.m.

swamp_water says... #13

So how do the graphs count the mana symbols? Is it a separate field or does it count 2 before your W

February 23, 2012 5:38 p.m.

yeaGO says... #14

it counts symbol occurences.

Normal style is: 2U = 2 colorless, one blue

Tapped out style is: 2,U 2 colorless, one blue

2U in TappedOut is two blue. But this is only internally used in the card database.

February 23, 2012 5:43 p.m.

swamp_water says... #15

ok I see thanks.

February 23, 2012 5:45 p.m.