Meaning of mana screw | Babel Free

Definitions

The condition of having an insufficient supply of (the correct color of) mana.

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Examples

“Because he knows how to design his deck to avoid mana screw (or the opposite and usually equally deadly mana glut).”

“Also, I think that not enough shuffling in Magic tends to result in very poor hands, characterized by mana screw or mana flood.”

“This is why we occasionally experience "mana screw" (too little mana) and "mana flood" (too much mana), even though the mana sources are randomly distributed throughout the deck.”

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