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Cost Increase is a term for the effect of increasing the cost of summoning creatures or casting spells.
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Increasing the cost of your opponents cards is a Tempo Advantage, but increasing your own cards is a demerit.
| 5 Milieus, the Daystretcher |
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Light  / Creature Berserker 2500 |
 Blocker (Whenever an opponent's creature attacks, you may tap this creature to stop the attack. Then the 2 creatures battle.) ■ Each darkness creature costs 2 more to summon, and each darkness spell costs 2 more to cast. |
| 3 Fuuma Gorgonshack |
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Water  / Creature Grand Devil 2000 |
| ■ All spells cost 2 more to cast. |
| 3 Taslic, Strange Stone |
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| Light / Creature Metallica 3000 |
| ■ Your opponent's spells cost 2 more to cast. |
Cards with an increased Mana Cost won't be able to be used without the higher number of cards in your mana zone, negatively affecting the Mana Curve of a deck.
Typically, because it is a strong ability many of the cards affect both the opponent and yourself. The abilities also tend to be limited in scope of the cards they affect, such as a specific civilization or spells. For this reason, they are usually treated as meta-cards.
- It is similar to Mana Burn, but as additional cards can be put into the mana zone, it is easier to overcome.
- Alephtina, Spiritual Princess is a card with a demerit that increases its own summoning cost based on the number of your shields.
- There is an opposing term of Cost Reduction that reduces the cost of your cards.