webrunner Wrote:Counting mana isn't going to do you much if any good. You won't know the mana he starts with. All you know is how much -additional- mana he could -possibly have- at a maximum and that's only if the face down is free. All you can do is add the amount he's generating and subract what he's playing - it isn't going to be worth it.
Two points:
1) That initial amount can only vary so much, particularly if my opponent only had, say, 1/3/1 or 2/3/0 or whatever before playing the facedown card. (Of course, under this system the game will try to conceal from me what they had beforehand, so I'll need to be taking notes, mental or otherwise, should I wish to possess this information. Admittedly that part probably wouldn't be too hard to fix--just list mana as the amount they had beforehand + ?.)
2) Even given this initial uncertainty, I still care deeply about how much mana my opponent has in many situations--not only for things like Aeon Weapon and Feedback but also situations like "they just played Shadey Prime, so they must have had at least that much grey mana...if I kill it now will the second life trigger?"
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.
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