What exactly is a mana ability?
Asked by Gamer7129 13 years ago
Is it like "T: Add R to your mana pool."? or is it something else. I should probably know this, but I have been looking at cards from Ravnica and found Azorius Guildmage and I wondered what it meant.
KrazyCaley says... Accepted answer #2
Check out this:
rules-primer--kinds-of-abilities
January 2, 2011 8:29 p.m.
emblasochist says... #3
Furthermore, Mana abilities come from before when there were Interrupts, which had their own stack, essentially. Interrupts such as Counterspell could be cast to interrupt another casting or, on occasion, an ability. Instants had a lower priority than interrupts and therefore could not do anything to an instant. Mana abilities were the only things that Interrupts could not counter or otherwise prevent. They essentially have highest priority of everything.
xeratheenigma says... #1
a mana ability is an ability that a permanent has that lets them produce mana. the most common mana ability is: T: add R to your mana pool but there are different mana abilities such as Cascade Bluffs
January 2, 2011 7:57 p.m.