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July 8, 2026

Mana Defaults to Zero

Rules day. The one that mattered: mana is zero unless a creature actually casts spells.

We are not printing a zero on every card - that is visual noise on hundreds of cards to communicate nothing. But the rulebook has to say it plainly, or the first person to read a creature card will spend ten minutes looking for a number that was never there.

Same for speed and intelligence. Both now have proper tables in the rules instead of living in my head and in the database.

The 11x17 board also got laid out today, and the custom die faces got their first real pass.

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