mana flood

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mana flood (countable and uncountable, plural mana floods)

  1. (Magic: The Gathering) The condition of having or drawing too many mana sources and insufficient spells.
    • 1997 October 30, Warrl kyree Tale'sedrin [uername], “Re: Too many cards?”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy[1] (Usenet):
      If you do anything about the mana screw problem, you increase the probability of a mana flood even further.
    • 1999 August 9, Ben Kidwell, “Re: Stat:Randomness Theory [Was Cheating S.O.Bs]”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy[2] (Usenet):
      Also, I think that not enough shuffling in Magic tends to result in very poor hands, characterized by mana screw or mana flood.
    • 1999 November 10, Trevor Barrie, “Alternative green control deck”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy[3] (Usenet):
      Include some cycling lands too and the threat of mana flood pretty much vanishes.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:mana flood.

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