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E} forIs infinite mana a thing here - or power/toughness (Infinity Elemental)? Come to think of it, Mox Lotus can't be properly worded with
now.
That's fair. Removed the offending word 'official'. I meant 'intended to be complete'. But you know... words. Sometimes we don't use words the way they're supposed to be literally interpreted, which is fine, until they are literally interpreted, and the entire English language comes collapsing down on us.
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T} isQ} is> This is an official page to showcase all the known mana symbols in the system.
By what authority is this "official"?
Hey, what is the chaos symbol now? I think it was
at one point, but got swapped out when 
became a thing. But I don't know what the symbol became.
This is a page to showcase all the known mana symbols in the system. When you write these codes in the 'Cost' field of cards, without brackets, they auto-populate the symbol. To write them in the 'ability' field on the card, or to write mana symbols in these comment fields, you need to surround the codes in curly brackets like this:
to get this: 
.
Both capital and lowercase letters can be used. You can also use parenthesis instead of curly brackets, but I recommend against it. It's possible that some day in the future the ability to use parenthesis will be removed from the description field. (Every now and then, someone puts the letter 'B' or 'S' in parenthesis by itself. Trust me, it makes sense in context. But it doesn't make sense when the
or 
symbol spontaneously appear in conversation.)
The following is a list of known symbols. If I missed any, comment and I'll add it to the list.
The Tap Symbol
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The Untap Symbol
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The Five Core Mana Symbols
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Colorless Mana
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Generic Mana
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...
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= 
= 
21+ isn't supported, but
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Variable Mana
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= 
= 
There is no 'Z'. I guess {Z} was too joke-y, but
was fine. Go figure.
Hybrid Mana
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Phyrexian Mana
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Snow Mana
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Energy
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The Chaos Symbol
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If you don't mean an incredibly large number of hate crimes called by the name 'Cards' than I think my expertise is needed elsewhere <3 :P
Clearly it needs a numbers theme.
the next person who makes a cardset will have the 1234th cardset!
That would be really nice! Thank you!
Threebrid's never been used (not counting the Granite Shard cycle which was made before hybrid was a thing.) I admit it makes it an odd choice for the system. Maybe whoever created it just assumed it was coming down the line, but it never happened?
I agree that a page with odd mana symbols could be helpful. At the very least so we can keep pointing to that page when someone asks the question. I'll try to remember to throw something together tomorrow.
Oh neat!
The various guild watermarks are available for cards, but not as mana symbols
{Boros Logo} and the like are things on the gamepedia, but not here I suppose.
Also tried {Boros} and such
An exhaustive list would be something i'd +1
I actually hadn't seen the threebrid... Was that ever a real thing in MTG?
Bad humour and unfortunate yelling aside, it would be nice to have an exhaustive list somewhere.
Getting back on topic. Have you seen three four out of curiosity?
The funniest part is seeing all the text fit.
I could write a whole essay on knowing your audience and knowing when to use a specific tool like this in comedy, but I'm not qualified and it's not worth it.
Thing is: It's a real difference if you use exaggerated modulation of voice/behavior in a situation, where you are alone on stage or on the screen and are the center of attention, or whether you are in a restaurant or supermarket where multiple conversations are going on and you yell for a joke there disregarding that you are interrupting someone else.
I believe you, you are truely sorry. We all run into situations where we step onto someone else's toes and I think it's important we communicate where we are coming from.
To complete the above analogy, you have a stage and it's cool what you are doing there expressing yourself by your own rules or lack there-of. But this is the supermarket, and unless you edit the cardname of this topic the yell will echo on for weeks with people seeing the all-caps text among the five most recent cards whenever they want to grab some milk.
Unexpectedly enough for you, maybe: Without the capitalization I actually thought it was a decent joke. The triple questionmark is actually a superb way to communicate emphasis without the more unwanted attention. :)
IMO for everything.
I'm just playing fam, I don't mean any offense, and I'm not offended either. This was supposed to be a humorous way to ask if there were any other symbols not listed on the side menu.
Sorry it came off rude, I often use 'yelling' to communicate a joke. Kind of like comedians do, but i understand if there was a miscommunication on my part. Sorry.
Apparently no one told you that typing in all caps is considered equivalent to yelling and equally rude.
I just learned that
is a thing, why was this not on the side of my cards!?!?!
WHAT ELSE HAVE I BEEN LIED TO ABOOOT!
It would be nice for one simple word to be used for every sort of resource, but that also makes it harder to understand what actually is doing what... so maybe kinda dangerousse
I dally with the idea to make the wording for counters consistent across objects.
Currently players "get" (Daxos the Returned) and "lose" (Leeches) counters, while for creatures it is "put onto" or "removed".
Would it be so bad to word Fretwork Colony's upkeep trigger ability as:
> At the beginning of your upkeep, ~ gets a +1/+1 counter and you lose 1 life.
? Suddenly that's consistent with players. You could go one further and use "gain" over get, but that's me just wanting to unify "gain 1 life", "gain
" and "gain an experience counter".
The only on that sounds weird to me is "creature gains +1/+1", but still less weird than "
: Add 
." and that's currently a thing.
Yeah, it's pretty unintuitive i suppose. At some point is it fair to say, just learn these words? maybe not. I never had struggle learning magic, but i guess not everyone is like the great and wonderful froggo, so i shouldn't be arguing for having more newbie complexity
That's the old wording from revised edition. E.g. http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=1349
Bolt might be doable, buit is a bit niche. Mill they are strongly on the fence - because while it's evocative to long-time players; it makes no sense at all to new ones. Because seirously, Millstone makes a noise which drives you crazy and so you discard cards. Obviously!