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During play, mana powers up [[Card|Cards]] to allow them to be played.
Mana of any of the five [[#Color|color]]s can be used to pay the casting cost of cards of any color. Other specialised types of mana exist. In paper Magic the Gathering, the system of [[#Color|Colored mana]] being required for colored cards replaces the MtGPQ requirement that colored cards can only be played by [[Planeswalkers]] of matching affinity.
Each [[Matching|Match]] of 3 or more [[Gems]] on the [[Gem board]] provides an amount of mana according to the number of gems matched, and the mana bonuses of the [[portal:Planeswalkers|Planeswalker]].
[[#Gaining Mana|Mana may be gained]] in several ways.
When gained, mana is automatically assigned to the cards in your hand, from the top down, filling the casting cost of each card fully before charging up the next card
The [[Colors of Magic]] event has a permanent support that reduces cards' casting cost by 11, which can reduce the cost to to zero, as can some cards. When this happens, the card is displayed as though it had full mana.
===Gaining Mana ===
[[Matching]] [[Gems]] on the [[Gem board]] is the most common way of gaining mana. Each gem match provides an amount of mana which is the sum of the following:
* The number of gems of the same [[#Color|color]] which were matched
* The Planeswalker's [[#Mana bonuses|mana bonus]] of the color of the gems which were matched
The mana required to play a card corresponds to the card's casting cost, which may range from 1 to 30.
Where in MtG the focus must be what can be accomplished each turn, and high cost cards may be effectively impossible to cast, the accumulation of Mana means that, eg, larger creatures are feasible. Because of this, and the disabling of cards, a hand of cards can represent an investment in not just just cards but Mana too. ==Mana typesColor==Mana of any of Like its parent game ''Magic: the five Gathering'', Color in [[colorMagic: the Gathering Puzzle Quest]]s is a core mechanic whose thematic flavor influences all aspects of the game, albeit not the mechanic of colored mana being required for colored cards. This is instead roughly analogous to the requirement that cards can only be used to pay played by the casting cost of cards of any same color[[Planeswalkers]]. Other specialised types Each of mana existthe five colors — White (W) {{W|35}}, Blue (U) {{U|35}}, Black (B) {{B|35}}, Red (R) {{R|35}}, and Green (G) {{G|35}} — is associated with distinct magic and cultural principles, and different mechanics and [[abilities]]. They, and second and third colors combined with them, are usually listed in that order.
===Mana Color ===
Mana of any of the five [[color]]s can be used to pay the casting cost of cards of any color. Mana from specific color [[matching|match]]es may be required for certain abilities such as {{Ability|Converge}}.
{| class="wikitable"
! Color
! Principles
! Associated land
|-
! <div style="text-align: rightleft">{{nowrap | White [[File:icon_W.png|x24px|White mana]]}}</div>White| Peace, law, structure| Gained by matching white gems. Pays for any card.Plains
|-
! <div style="text-align: rightleft">{{nowrap | Blue [[File:icon_U.png|x24px|Blue mana]]}}</div>Blue| Knowledge, intellect, deceit| Gained by matching blue gems. Pays for any card.Island
|-
! <div style="text-align: rightleft">{{nowrap | Black [[File:icon_B.png|x24px|Black mana]]}}</div>Black| Power, selfishness, death| Gained by matching black gems. Pays for any card.Swamp
|-
! <div style="text-align: rightleft">{{nowrap | Red [[File:icon_R.png|x24px|Red mana]]}}</div>Red| Impulsiveness, freedom, destruction| Gained by matching red gems. Pays for any card.Mountain
|-
! <div style="text-align: rightleft">{{nowrap | Green [[File:icon_G.png|x24px|Green mana]]Green| Nature, growth, interdependence| Forest|}}</div>Other specialised types of mana exist.{| Gained by matching green gems. Pays for any card.class="wikitable"
|-
! <div style="text-align: right">{{nowrap | Void [[File:icon_V.png|x24px|Void mana]]}}</div>
|}
==Gaining In Planeswalkers==Most [[Planeswalkers]] have an affinity to one, two, or even three colors, and [[#Mana bonuses|Mana bonuses]] which strongly tend to favor those affinities. A Planeswalker's [[deck]] may only include [[card]]s which have at least one color matching an affinity of the Planeswalker. Colorless cards can be used by any Planeswalker. In [[Events]], some nodes have color restrictions. Such nodes may only be played by a Planeswalker sharing a color with the node, or a colorless Planeswalker. Like card abilities, [[:Category:Planeswalker abilities|Planeswalker abilities]] tend to be thematically linked to certain colors. For example, [[:Category:Vigilance|giving creatures Vigilance]] and [[:Category:First Strike|First Strike]] tends to be a White Planeswalker ability. [[:Category:Draw|Drawing cards]] and [[:Category:Drain mana|draining the mana]] out of opponents' cards tend to be Blue PW abilities; Black PWs may draw cards, but they often have to pay Life or some other cost. Black PWs [[:Category:Reanimate|Reanimate creatures out of the graveyard]] straight into play and [[:Category:Lose life|make opponents lose life]]. Red typically does [[:Category:Damage|Damage]] directly to the opponent or their creatures, and [[:Category:Destroy gems|destroys gems]] of the opponent's colors. Green [[:Category:Convert gems|Converts gems]] to their own colors. Green PW's identity beyond that is less clear; they often tend to be a showcase of the [[:Category:Set ability|abilities featured in their set]], or in the case of dual color walkers, have abilities of the second color. Almost 40% of Planeswalkers [[:Category:Summon creatures|Summon some sort of token creature]]; along with the broad category of [[:Category:Buffs|Buffing creatures]] it is an ability that all the colors share. Always-Standard Origins lands are only in the "Opposed" colors, and so can be optimally used only by Planeswalkers of [[#Dual color: Ravnica Guilds|opposed pairs of colors]]. They also favor the [[#Tri color: Clans of Tarkir|Tarkir Clan Planeswalkers]] over the [[#Tri color: Shards of Alara|Alara Shard Planeswalkers]]. For example, WUR "Jeskai" [[Narset of the Ancient Way]] receives direct benefits from both {{Card URL|Battlefield Forge}} and {{Card URL|Shivan Reef}}, where the UBR "Grixis" Nicol Bolas trio only directly benefit from Shivan Reef. WBR "Mardu" [[Dihada, Binder of Wills]] benefits from Battlefield Forge and {{Card URL|Caves of Koilos}}, where WUB "Esper" [[Dakkon, Shadow Slayer]] only directly benefits from Caves. The reverse tends to be true of the [[Puzzle Masters 2]] lands. ===Colorless planeswalkers===Some Planeswalkers are colorless. Cards may only be included in the deck of a colorless Planeswalker which share a color with the [[Events|Event]] node on which the Planeswalker is playing. If a node is locked to a specific color, they cannot be used. If a node is not associated with a color, they can use any color cards. === Mana bonuses===[[Origins]] Planeswalkers' mana bonuses add up to five. Between Origins and [[Hour of Devastation]], mana bonus totals wavered but gradually increased. Planeswalkers released from [[Ixilan]] onwards follow simple rules for their [[mana]] bonuses:#Three-color Planeswalkers' mana bonuses add up to seven.#Two-color Planeswalkers' mana bonuses add up to eight.#Mono-color Planeswalkers' mana bonuses add up to nine. There are clear benefits to playing Planeswalkers with high spike bonuses with mana conversion, and when playing without mana conversion, to use Planeswalkers with a balanced spread of bonuses. === 5 colors in 2 games ===All rewards in a single [[Story]] mode battle can be earned in two games. Use a three color planeswalker (such as [[Nicol Bolas, God-Pharaoh]]) in a first game, and another two or three color planeswalker (such as [[Huatli, Radiant Champion]] or [[Tamiyo, Field Researcher]]) in a second game to meet all five color objectives. The two optional objectives may be gained in several wayscompleted simultaneously. An incomplete list of the two-planeswalker combinations which cover all 5 colors:{| class="wikitable"! colspan="2" | First planeswalker! colspan="2" | Second planeswalker|-| rowspan="3" | {{Color Icons|WUB}}| rowspan="3" | [[Dakkon, Shadow Slayer]]| style="border-right:0px" | {{Color Icons|GR}}| style="border-left:0px" | [[Arlinn, the Pack's Hope]], [[Domri, Chaos Bringer]], [[Samut, the Tested]], or [[Wrenn and Six]]|-| style="border-right:0px" | {{Color Icons|URG}}| style="border-left:0px" | [[Sarkhan Unbroken]]|-| style="border-right:0px" | {{Color Icons|BRG}}| style="border-left:0px" | [[Lord Windgrace]]|-| rowspan="2" | {{Color Icons|WUR}}| rowspan="2" | [[Narset of the Ancient Way]]| style="border-right:0px" | {{Color Icons|BG}}| style="border-left:0px" | [[Garruk, Cursed Huntsman]], [[Nissa of Shadowed Boughs]], [[Vraska, Golgari Queen]], or [[Vraska, Relic Seeker]]|-| style="border-right:0px" | {{Color Icons|BRG}}| style="border-left:0px" | [[Lord Windgrace]]|-| rowspan="4" | {{Color Icons|WUG}}| rowspan="4" | [[Tamiyo, Field Researcher]]| style="border-right:0px" | {{Color Icons|BR}}| style="border-left:0px" | [[Angrath, the Flame-Chained]], [[Ob Nixilis, the Adversary]], [[Sarkhan the Mad]], or [[Tibalt, Cosmic Impostor]]|-| style="border-right:0px" | {{Color Icons|WBR}}| style="border-left:0px" | [[Dihada, Binder of Wills]]|-| style="border-right:0px" | {{Color Icons|UBR}}| style="border-left:0px" | [[Nicol Bolas, God-Pharaoh]], [[Nicol Bolas, the Ravager]], or [[Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God]]|-| style="border-right:0px" | {{Color Icons|BRG}}| style="border-left:0px" | [[Lord Windgrace]]|-| rowspan="2" | {{Color Icons|WBR}}| rowspan="2" | [[Dihada, Binder of Wills]]| style="border-right:0px" | {{Color Icons|UG}}| style="border-left:0px" | [[Kasmina, Enigma Sage]], [[Kiora, Master of the Depths]], [[Nissa, Steward of the Elements]], [[Oko, Thief of Crowns]] aor [[Tamiyo, Compleated Sage]]|-| style="border-right:0px" | {{Color Icons|WUG}}| style="border-left:0px" | [[Tamiyo, Field Researcher]]|-| rowspan="2" | {{Color Icons|UBR}}| rowspan="2" | [[Nicol Bolas, God-Pharaoh]], [[Nicol Bolas, the Ravager]], or [[Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God]]| style="border-right:0px" | {{Color Icons|WG}}| style="border-left:0px" | [[Ajani, Unyielding]], [[Calix, Destiny's Hand]], or [[Huatli, Radiant Champion]]|-| style="border-right:0px" | {{Color Icons|WUG}}| style="border-left:0px" | [[Tamiyo, Field Researcher]]|-| rowspan="3" | {{Color Icons|URG}}| rowspan="3" | [[Sarkhan Unbroken]]| style="border-right:0px" | {{Color Icons|WB}}| style="border-left:0px" | [[Daxos the Returned]], [[Kaya, Orzhov Usurper]], [[Kaya, the Inexorable]], [[Kaya, Geist Hunter]], or [[Sorin, Grim Nemesis]]|-| style="border-right:0px" | {{Color Icons|WUB}}| style="border-left:0px" | [[Dakkon, Shadow Slayer]]|-| style="border-right:0px" | {{Color Icons|WBR}}| style="border-left:0px" | [[Dihada, Binder of Wills]]|-| rowspan="5" | {{Color Icons|BRG}}| rowspan="5" | [[Lord Windgrace]]| style="border-right:0px" | {{Color Icons|WU}}|-| style="border-right:0px" | {{Color Icons|WUB}}| style="border-left:0px" | [[Dakkon, Shadow Slayer]]|-| style="border-right:0px" |{{Color Icons|WUR}}| style="border-left:0px" | [[Narset of the Ancient Way]]|-| style="border-right:0px" | {{Color Icons|WUG}}| style="border-left:0px" | [[Tamiyo, Field Researcher]]|-| style="border-right:0px" |{{Color Icons|WB}}|-|} ==In Cards==Each [[card]] is either colorless, or has one, two, or occasionally more colors. Moreso even than [[:Category:Planeswalker abilities|Planeswalker abilities]], card [[abilities]] tend to be thematically linked to certain colors.
===Gem matches=In Story ==Gem matches are Other Magic the Gathering sets have featured the most common way single colors in their story, but in Puzzle Quest, only [[Throne of gaining manaEldraine]]. Each gem match on the gem board provides an amount of mana which is the sum of the following<br> [https:* The number of gems of the same color which were matched* The Planeswalker//mtg.fandom.com/wiki/Eldraine Eldraine]'s mana bonus of the color of the gems which were matchedKingdoms: White: [https://mtg.fandom.com/wiki/Ardenvale Ardenvale]. Blue: [https://mtg.fandom.com/wiki/Vantress Vantress]. Black: [https://mtg.fandom.com/wiki/Locthwain Locthwain]. Red: [https://mtg.fandom.com/wiki/Embereth Embereth]. Green: [https://mtg.fandom.com/wiki/Garenbrig Garenbrig].
===CardsTri color: Shards of Alara ===Mana can also be gained from certain Arc. Adjoining colors, an arc of the color wheel. Some Puzzle Quest Planeswalkers use the same colors of magic as, but are otherwise unrelated to, Alara shards. [[Dakkon, Shadow Slayer]] uses Esper. Nicol Bolas uses Grixis. [[Tamiyo, Field Researcher]] uses Bant. [[CardLord Windgrace]] uses Jund.:{{W|cards38}}{{U|38}}{{B|38}} [https://mtg.fandom.com/wiki/Esper Esper]: White/Blue/Black:{{W|38}}{{U|38}}{{G|38}} [https://mtg.fandom.com/wiki/Bant Bant] which provide mana when played, or while in play: White/Blue/Green:{{W|38}}{{R|38}}{{G|38}} [https://mtg.fandom.com/wiki/Naya Naya]: Red/Green/White:{{U|38}}{{B|38}}{{R|38}} [https://mtg.fandom.com/wiki/Grixis Grixis]: Blue/Black/Red:{{B|38}}{{R|38}}{{G|38}} [https://mtg.fandom.com/wiki/Jund Jund]: Black/Red/Green
===Planeswalker abilities= Streets of New Capenna ====Some The crime families of New Capenna channel the same three [[color]] Arc, or Shard, mana combinations as in [portalhttps:Planeswalkers//mtg.fandom.com/wiki/Alara Alara]. :{{W|Planeswalkers25}}{{U|25}}{{B|25}} [https://mtg.fandom.com/wiki/Obscura Obscura]:{{W|25}}{{U|25}}{{G|25}} [https://mtg.fandom.com/wiki/Brokers Brokers] have Loyalty abilities which provide mana:{{W|25}}{{R|25}}{{G|25}} [https://mtg.fandom.com/wiki/Cabaretti Cabaretti]:{{U|25}}{{B|25}}{{R|25}} [https://mtg.fandom.com/wiki/Maestros Maestros]:{{B|25}}{{R|25}}{{G|25}} [https://mtg.fandom.com/wiki/Riveteers Riveteers]
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