How Many Colors of Mana Are There? There are 5 colors of Mana. White, Blue, Black, Red, and Green. I don't know what you expected. It's that simple. But in all seriousness, there are 5 colors of mana. At least in normal games of MTG. However, there is one place where that isn't true. Silver-bordered games. The first color that we have is pink. 4 cards let you create pink permanents, being Dark Throw, Gift Shop, Push Your Luck, and Water Gun Balloon Game, all from Unfinity. Next is gold. Gold only appears on one card, Sword of Dungeons & Dragons, which allows you to create Gold 4/4 Dragons when you deal combat damage to a player. This card is from Unsanctioned, and to be extra clear, it has this ruling: "The Dragon token is monocolored. It’s gold." So that's 7 so far. Pretty manageable so far, right? Well, the next thing we have to look at is not another color, but a card. Specifically, Avatar of Me. Avatar of Me {2}{U}{U} Creature — Avatar This spell costs {1} more to cast for each ten years you’ve been alive. Avatar of Me’s power is equal to your height in feet and its toughness is equal to your American shoe size. Round to the nearest ½. Avatar of Me is the color of your eyes. */* It's a pretty complex card, but we're only interested in on line, the one that defines Avatar of Me's color. It can be any eye color. This means that, in a Silver-bordered game, there are an infinite amount of colors of mana, as this ruling clears up: "Silver-bordered rules include any conceivable eye color, not just the five traditional Magic colors. If your eye are hazel, Avatar of Me is hazel." A few fun rulings for Avatar of Me, colored contacts do change the color of your eyes and can be removed or put on as a response. Also, if you have two eyes colors, Avatar of Me is both colors. Now, some of you might be thinking, there are infinite colors that permanents can be, but how many colors of mana can you actually produce. Well,the answer is also infinite. As Avatar of Me's ruling says, "Thanks to Avatar of Me, if you’re asked to choose a color in a silver-bordered game, you can name any color. 'That dreamy shade of blue found only in the sky on a perfect afternoon… and in your eyes' is acceptable, but a little weird." So, cards that add one mana of any color can add any color you can think of. To recap, there are infinite colors of mana within Silver-bordered games because of one card existing, and you can produce any of those colors. However, there are still only 5 colors in normal MTG. Thanks for reading, and remember that there's always a vibrant layer of depth beneath each seemingly simple system. Check the Studio for other articles:
