Lotus Bloom

Changing Lands with Richard Garfield, PhD

SILVER BORDER QUESTION: If I have Richard Garfield, PhD. out can I play lands as any other land? Or does that not work since they do not have a mana cost? Would this also apply to cards that do not have a mana cost such as Lotus Bloom?

You can’t play lands as anything else. They don’t have a mana cost.

Lands Lotus Bloom Mana Richard Garfield Un-Magic / Silver Border / Acorn Un-sets

Richard Garfield Card Usage

What can Richard Garfield Ph.D do with augment cards? Can he make them a suspend card like lotus bloom? Can he make them a black lotus or a mox card. If I'm mindlavering someone who has him in play, can I make him make one into a blacker lotus and tear up their card (obviously there'd be social repercussions independent of any rulings). Can I cast them as something that costs X? Or another Augment? Can I make lands into other lands?

Richard Garfield, PhD can’t do anything with cards that lack a mana cost.

Black Black Lotus Blacker Lotus Lands Lotus Bloom Mana Richard Garfield Suspend Suspend

Mana Cost Distinctions

Hi Maro! What is the difference between a card having 0 mana cost, like Pact of Negation and just blank in that upper right side of a card like Lotus Bloom?

You can cast the former and not the latter.

Cast Lotus Bloom Mana Mark Rosewater Pact of Negation

Colorless Mana Symbols

If colorless mana cost was displayed with one symbol per mana like colored mana is, how would you depict a zero-cost card like Ornithopter? And without confusing it with cards that do not have a casting cost like Lotus Bloom?

It’s a problem we would have to solve.

Casting Cost Colorless Lotus Bloom Mana Ornithopter

Suspend Isn't Casting

FYI, since this question seems to be coming up a lot: Suspending isn't casting. You can't normally cast Lotus Bloom from your hand, so you can't use Richard Garfield, Ph.D. and a land to cast it, either.

FYI

Cast Lands Lotus Bloom Richard Garfield Richard Garfield, Ph.D. Your Hand

Casting Without Cost

With Richard Garfield, Ph.D. Could I use a basic land to cast Lotus bloom due to both of them having no Mana cost?

No. Both not having a mana cost is not the same as them matching.

Cast Lands Lotus Bloom Mana Richard Garfield Richard Garfield, Ph.D.

Storm Mechanic Evaluation

I don't really understand why storm is a 10 on the storm scale. Storm really isn't a broken mechanic if there are no cheap rituals in the format. Its pretty simple really. Last time it was in standard with seething song, rite of flame and lotus bloom so it was really good. Its like saying hyopnotic specter is overpowered because you can play it turn 1 off of a dark ritual.

Don’t let Storm sweet talk you. It’s not as harmless as it says it is.

Dark Ritual Keyword Abilities Lotus Bloom Mechanics Pop Culture Rite of Flame Seething Song Specter Standard Storm Scale

Lotus Criteria

"It [Lotus Bloom] meets all the criteria [of a Lotus]." No, it doesn't. One criterion is that a lotus costs 0. Lotus Bloom doesn't because it has no mana cost.

No cost is close enough to 0 for me.

Lotus Bloom Mana

Lotus Bloom Definition

Does Lotus Bloom count as a Lotus? It "costs" 3 turns.

That’s fine. It meets all of the criteria.

Lotus Bloom

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