Chroma

Chroma is an ability word first introduced in Eventide. Cards with chroma require a count of the number of specific colored mana symbols on cards.

Rulings

• Different chroma abilities have different effects and check different sets of cards or permanents. Read each card carefully.
• Chroma abilities check only mana costs, which are found in a card's upper right corner. They don't count mana symbols that appear in a card's text box.
• Chroma abilities count hybrid mana symbols of the appropriate color. For example, a card with mana cost Template:UrTemplate:Ur has two red mana symbols in its mana cost.
• Many chroma abilities check a set of permanents that includes the one with the chroma ability. For example, Heartlash Cinder's chroma ability includes itself, so it'll get at least +1/+0. Similarly, Primalcrux (a creature with power and toughness each equal to the number of green mana symbols in the mana costs of permanents you control) will be at least 6/6 while it's in play.
• Copy effects, such as Spitting Image and Clone, copy a permanent's mana cost (and all the mana symbols therein). A token that's a copy of a permanent will copy that permanent's mana cost, if that permanent has one, and will be counted for chroma abilities.

Color percentages

There is a total of 9 cards that involve chroma, which divide by color as such:

• Red = 33 %
• Green = 22 %
• White = 22 %
• Black = 11 %
• Blue = 11 %

Trivia

• Chroma was featured as rules card 3 of 8 in the Eventide set.

External links

• A Planeswalker's Primer for Eventide 2: Chroma
• The Crux of the Matter - Primalcrux, the first previewed card with Chroma