Face Down + Hidden Mana

Dav1000 Wrote:

webrunner Wrote:As for the magic solution, it's pretty much impossible to make them all cost the same and keep them unique and varied as well as hving them different colors.

Hence masa's suggestion of having a few different common mana amounts, which would presumably require considerable rebalancing, though I think it would be the ideal solution in a more perfect world where free time was plentiful.

If you're suggesting that we take that route, now would be the time to do it, because we already require considerable rebalancing.

Also, in M:tG, all face down monsters are abilityless and 2/2 prior to being flipped. A similar concept in CMC wouldn't be at all good I reckon. And the lack of colorless mana would ruin things too.

Oh, and attempting to use a spell/ability with a certain mana cost could reveal that the player has at least that much mana, if it currently shows it as X+?, and X is less than that cost.

Again, ignore where irrelevant.