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CardName: Temple of Insight Cost: Type: Land Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: {T}: Reveal the top card of your library. Add {1} or one mana of the revealed card’s colors to your mana pool. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Madoka Magi-ka Rare |
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: Reveal the top card of your library. Add 
or one mana of the revealed card’s colors to your mana pool.
Hi guys. Do I have the second ability worded correctly?
I think so. And nice idea.
Although it doesn't work if the card revealed is colourless. (That may be deliberate for balance, but I think it will feel bad that you have to give up
to get it, and people would be likely to play it wrong.) I don't know of any standard wording for "one mana of that card's colours", it should exist, but I don't remember any examples. You could combine the two abilities and say "
: Look at the top card of your library. You may reveal it and add one mana of any of it's colours to your mana pool. Else, add 
to your mana pool." But it's a bit clunky.
Combining to :
: Reveal the top card of your library, you may add 
or one mana of its colours to your mana pool.
And I just wrote "Reveal the top card of your mana pool" which is amusingly wrong.
Consolidated the two abilities.
I think that works (assuming you're doing this suddenly new trendy thing of putting multicoloured mana in your mana pool). Opal Titan provides precedent for "each of that [object]'s colours".
If you wanted to stick to established precedent, you could say "
or mana of one of the revealed card's colours".
Oh, but either way you should perhaps make this "only any time you could cast an instant". Charmed Pendant has that clause, and Deranged Assistant doesn't but has problems for that reason.
Aww. No revealing cards at mana speed?
It... would probably be okay, on second thoughts. Deranged Assistant caused problems because it made cards move.
Charmed Pendant uses the instant-only sentence because the output you get from it is variable, as is this. Imagine you're trying to play a Woolly Thoctar off a forest, a plains, and this: during the mana ability step, you activate this and unless the top card turns out to be red, it's impossible to get the mana to pay for the spell and you have to rewind. You untap the lands including Temple, but you still know the top card of your library, which is just the kind of thing they don't want to allow.
use multicolour land frame
Ah, of course, good point. So this would need to be restricted to instant speed, because otherwise you can steal information.