WUBRG

WUBRG (/wu'bɜːɹg/, from the phonetic transcription of the mana symbols ) is a term used for one of each colored mana; white, blue, black, red, and green.

Cards with WUBRG mana cost

There are only a few cards with mana cost. Most of them are legendary.

• Who/What/When/Where/Why is a five-color instant card but only has one color when cast.
• Transguild Courier and Sphinx of the Guildpact are five-colored cards but cost generic mana to play. Fallaji Wayfarer has a similar ability, but its mana cost also includes green mana.
• Awaken the Maelstrom and O-Kagachi Made Manifest are the back faces of cards that cost WUBRG to cast and are themselves five-colored.

Creatures

• 1996 World Champion (only one copy of this card exists)
• Atogatog
• Child of Alara
• Chromanticore
• Cromat
• Fusion Elemental
• Garth One-Eye
• Horde of Notions
• Jodah, the Unifier
• Karona, False God
• Maelstrom Archangel
• Marina Vendrell
• Nira, Hellkite Duelist (Heroes of the Realm)
• Niv-Mizzet Reborn
• Niv-Mizzet, Supreme
• Niv-Mizzet, Guildpact
• O-Kagachi, Vengeful Kami
• Omnath, Locus of All
• Primeval Spawn
• Progenitus
• Reaper King (uses monocolor hybrid i.e. pay or a color)
• Rukarumel, Biologist
• Scion of the Ur-Dragon
• Slivdrazi Monstrosity (Mystery Booster)
• Sliver Gravemother
• Sliver Hivelord
• Sliver Legion
• Sliver Overlord
• Sliver Queen
• The First Sliver
• The Ur-Dragon
• Tiamat
• Tom Bombadil
• Two-Headed Hellkite

Instants

• Unite the Coalition

Battles

• Invasion of Alara

Sorceries

• Begin the Invasion
• Coalition Victory
• Conflux
• Iridian Maelstrom
• Last Stand
• Meeting of the Five

Enchantments

• Call the Spirit Dragons
• Genju of the Realm
• Maelstrom Nexus
• Sanctum of All
• The Kami War
• The Prismatic Bridge (back face of Esika, God of the Tree)
• Wizard from Beyond (Heroes of the Realm)

Planeswalkers

• Ersta, Friend to All (Heroes of the Realm)
• Jared Carthalion
• Urza, Academy Headmaster (Unstable)

Cards with WUBRG in their text box

With the rise of Commander and its color identity rules, a newer design is to slot in all five symbols in the text box in a way that doesn't affect its casting cost too much. Golos, Tireless Pilgrim is infamous for being a Commander that be cast off colorless sources such as Sol Ring and finds colors off lands like the Triomes, potentially resulting in a deck of only the best spells in every color and no real theming. In order contexts, there are things like Morophon, the Boundless, a generically typal commander that can be used for any subtype without a proper Legendary creature to helm the deck. Alternatively, the subtype is spread somewhat evenly across three or more colors but the deck's strategy would not want to expend resources fixing its mana and so putting it in the text box gets around that issue.

Cards that add WUBRG

Some cards can add .

• Andrios, Roaming Explorer (Heroes of the Realm)
• Bloom Tender (if you control permanents in all colors)
• Cascading Cataracts
• Channel the Suns
• Codie, Vociferous Codex
• Composite Golem
• Crystal Quarry
• Faeburrow Elder (if you control permanents in all colors)
• Iridescent Tiger
• Jegantha, the Wellspring (cannot be spent as generic mana)
• Jenson Carthalion, Druid Exile
• Kaleidostone
• Krosa (Only when chaos ensues)
• Leyline Immersion (Add five mana in any combination of colors. Spend this mana only to cast spells)
• Meeting of the Five
• Opening Ceremony (plus )
• Rainbow Dash (Secret Lair Drop Series: Ponies: The Galloping 2 - Extra Life 2023) — only if you're 100% cool.
• Ramos, Dragon Engine
• Timeless Lotus

Cards that reduce costs by WUBRG

• Morophon, the Boundless — Only for creature spells of the chosen type.
• Vorthos, Steward of Myth (Unfinity) — Only for cards with the Magic character named in its first ability.
• Aang, Master of Elements — once a player can Airbend, Earthbend, Firebend and Waterbend in the same turn

Cards with WUBRG activation cost

Some cards require to activate an ability.

• Aslek, the Swelling Scourge
• Chamber Sentry
• Courier's Briefcase
• Door to Nothingness
• Dragonbroods' Relic
• Dragonsoul Knight
• Earthern Ally
• Etched Monstrosity
• Ezio Auditore da Firenze
• Fabled Path of Searo Point (Heroes of the Realm)
• Fleshformer
• General Tazri
• Golos, Tireless Pilgrim
• Go-Shintai of Life's Origin
• Hei Bai, Forest Guardian
• Horde of Notions
• Kyodai, Soul of Kamigawa
• Legacy Weapon
• Leonardo, the Balance
• Najeela, the Blade-Blossom
• Marshal's Pathcruiser
• Paragon of the Amesha
• Path To The World Tree
• Princess Twilight Sparkle (Ponies: The Galloping)
• Prism Array
• Sisay, Weatherlight Captain
• Tazri, Stalwart Survivor
• The Wandering Mistral
• Urtet, Remnant of Memnarch
• Widespread Thieving — Triggered ability
• The World Tree

Some have multiple abilities which require to activate them all.

• Kenrith, the Returned King — Has one ability of each color
• Obelisk of Alara — Has one ability of each color
• Cromat — Has one ability of each enemy color pairing.

Cards with WUBRG replacement cost

• The Bringer cycle from Fifth Dawn allows you to pay to cast them instead of their considerably higher mana costs.
  • Bringer of the Black Dawn
  • Bringer of the Blue Dawn
  • Bringer of the Green Dawn
  • Bringer of the Red Dawn
  • Bringer of the White Dawn
• Worldheart Phoenix can be cast from your graveyard by paying .
• Fist of Suns, Jodah, Archmage Eternal, and Leyline of Mutation allow you to pay instead of any spell's mana cost.
• Etched Oracle Avatar (Magic Online Vanguard) allows you to pay instead of any spell's mana cost.

See also

• Multicolored