Mana functions in game

[Xander9009]

The only conflicts with an auto-tap ability and other abilities on the card (including Manual Mana abilities) is with costs paid for extra ability such as with a mana cost of at least or mana that the auto-tap ability produces. Though this can usually be overcome with changing the availability to only be available when the cost plus the mana produced by the auto-tap is available.

That's what I thought, but I didn't know if there were possibly other situations I simply hadn't encountered.

Granted abilities suffer from the same issues as innate abilities when dealing with auto-tapping. The problem with these is that they can't be compensated for by changing the availability because you have no idea what the card can produce because the ability could be granted to virtually any card.

That's what I was afraid of and exactly why I was asking. I was hoping that by chance the game would handle granted abilities differently to an extent to avoid this. Didn't figure that was the case, but I was certainly hoping.

Unfortunately, the only way to do that would be to add an availability which checks the current mana production for that card, but that would require altering every single activated ability with a tap and a mana component. That's simply not realistic, though. I prefer the system flaws we can actually address Oh well. I'm not going to worry about it since there's not much to be done about it anyway. Thanks for the info.