Basic Land VS Nonbasic Land
OP Peterson
I have a land that is not a basic land type, can I use this land to gain one
mana like a regular land even though it has another abilities? I guess my
question is do I have to use the ability or can I use it like a regular
land?
Thank you
- OP Peterson
Gavin Arneaux
There are five basic land types: Plains, which produce 1 white mana when
tapped for mana; Islands (blue); Mountains (red); Swamps (black); and Forests
(green). Even the versions of these five that do not actually say something
like "TAP: Add 1 white mana to your mana pool" right on the cards (Unglued,
Masques, and Invasion are the only ones I know fo so far) have this ability.
Any land that is not one of these 5 is a non-basic land. Non-basic lands
say right on them what you can do with them. For example, Kor Haven says on it:
Tap: Add one colorless mana to your mana pool.
1W, Tap: Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt by target attacking
creature this
turn.
It does not say that you can tap it for colored mana. So, you can't get a
colored mana out of it merely by tapping it for mana. (There are spells and
abilities that would actually allow this to happen. But as far as a Kor Haven
by itself is concerned, no.)
If the non-basic land does not say anything about being able to be tapped
for mana, it can't (disregarding the spells and abilities that I mentioned
above).
Hope this helps, gavin
Orgg99
>I have a land that is not a basic land type, can I use this land to gain one
>mana like a regular land even though it has another abilities? I guess my
>question is do I have to use the ability or can I use it like a regular
>land?
Non-basic lands will normally give you the
option of tapping for a mana (it will say whether that mana is colorless or has
a color) along with some special ability.
In the cases of those lands, you have the option of tapping for a mana or
tapping to use the other ability. You cannot do both
at once. Be aware also that there have
been many non-basic lands which have an
ability or a continuous effect, but cannot produce any mana at all (Maze of
Ith,
Halls of Mist, Glacial Chasm. etc., etc.).
So unless the non-basic land tells you that you have the option of tapping for
mana,
you cannot.
Christopher Wiegert
>My Question:
How would you know what kind of basic land you're supposed to
treat it as? You'd just be guessing. Only basic lands have a "built-in"
mana-generating ability. If the card's not a plains/mountain/swamp/forest/island
and doesn't say it counts as one of those either, then it'll only have
the mana-producing abilities listed on the card. If there aren't any listed,
then you can't get any mana from it.
David DeLaney
>I have a land that is not a basic land type, can I use this land to gain one
>mana like a regular land even though it has another abilities?
If the land says it has an ability that'll give you mana, you can use that
ability. If the land does _not_ have any ability that gives you mana? Then
you can't get mana from it. [The -basic- lands get a mana ability from the
rulebook; nonbasic lands don't get any such abilities...]
> I guess my
>question is do I have to use the ability or can I use it like a regular
>land?
You have to use the ability(abilities) listed. The basic lands - the
ones that just have a big mana symbol on them - get the appropriate
"Tap: Add <> to your mana pool" ability automatically; a land that
has its land type -changed- to be a basic land type gets this ability
(and loses its old ones). But other than that, lands only have the
ability or abilities listed on them. There -are- lands that have no
mana abilities at all - Oasis, Halls of Mist, Glacial Chasm, etc.
Dave
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