Draw Mana Symbols 🎴

Draw Mana Symbols is the pack's most gloriously niche node: it renders Magic: The Gathering mana costs as actual card-art symbols. Type {W}{U}{B}{R}{G} and get white, blue, black, red, and green mana icons rendered into an image. If you generate custom card frames, alter cards, or make MTG-themed content, this is the node that exists because the author wanted it - and it's honestly the only one of its kind I've seen in the ComfyUI ecosystem.

How it works

Under the hood it's a thin wrapper around the pack's Draw Text node. You type a mana cost in curly-brace notation and the node converts it before rendering:

• {W} {U} {B} {R} {G} - the five colors
• {1} through {9} - generic mana
• {X} {Y} {Z}, {C} (colorless), {H} (phyrexian), {S} (snow), plus fancy variants like {W-ORIGINAL} and {W-LIST}

Each maps to a glyph in the mana.ttf icon font that ships with the pack, so there's no model download and no external asset hunting - the font is in custom_nodes/comfyui-dreambait-nodes/fonts/. That's also why font_name defaults to mana.ttf and why the font list in the node includes the other packaged fonts (MPlantin, Gotham, horizon, etc.) for pairing body text with symbols.

Everything else is inherited from Draw Text: image_width/image_height (ignored if you composite onto an existing img_composite image), font_size, font_color, background_color, full alignment controls, x_percent/y_percent positioning, rotation_angle, even language for hyphenation. Outputs are image and mask - the mask lets you composite just the symbols onto a card frame without a colored background box. That's the workflow: render symbols with a transparent background, then use the mask to punch them into your card design.

The inputs you'll actually touch

• text - the mana string, e.g. {1}{W}{W} for a two-white one-generic cost
• font_size - bigger than you think; 54 is the default and reads small at card scale
• background_color / background_opacity - set transparent (or use an 8-digit hex with alpha) if you're compositing onto a card

One tip: the whole system is case- and bracket-sensitive - {w} won't convert. Keep the braces and uppercase letters exactly as in the examples.

Install

It's part of drmbt/comfyui-dreambait-nodes:

cd ComfyUI/custom_nodes
git clone https://github.com/drmbt/comfyui-dreambait-nodes

then restart ComfyUI (or find it via ComfyUI Manager as "comfyui-dreambait-nodes"). The pack's full dependency list installs with it, heavy ML deps included, even though this node just needs Pillow and a font file. It's a fun utility, not a serious ML node - but it's the kind of well-executed specificity that makes a grab-bag pack worth keeping around.