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AZNsupermarket

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Are hybrid cards also considered to be multi-colored or are they mutually exclusive? Are hybrid and multi-colored cards considered to be all the individual colors that make them up (for the purpose of protection from "insert color her" for instance)?

Enigma256

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Nivmagus Elemental

is both blue and red, no matter what you pay for it

protection from red will work against it, as will protection from blue

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Yes, they are all of the colors. Something like Figure of Destiny

is a white and red card in every zone.

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A hybrid card has all colors of the hybrid mana symbol. Golgari Guildmage

is both black and green, while Flame Javelin

is only red.

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Cards that have hybrid mana costs are considered to be all of the colors in its casting cost, regardless of how you pay for them. So, a card like Rakdos Cackler

is a multicolored card, having both red and black mana in its mana cost. This means that it couldn't block a creature that had either protection from red, or protection from black.

AZNsupermarket

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And gold cards also count as the color of all the mana it costs to play them?

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yes, same deal

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Nov 8, 2012 -- 10:58AM, AZNsupermarket wrote:
And gold cards also count as the color of all the mana it costs to play them?

Yes.

Rakdos Shred-Freak 's colors are Black and Red. Rix Maadi Guildmage 's colors are also Black and Red.

Both creatures are Red. Both creatures are Black. Both creatures are multicolored. They can't block Silver Knight . They can't be the target of Doom Blade .

"Hybrid" and "gold" are mostly informal terms. There are five Colors in Magic, an object can have 0 , 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 or 5 colors. No color means it's colorless, one color means it's monocolored, two or more measn it's multicolored.