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…I watched a player just simple not pay for mana leak with a ton of extra mana open. I watched…

Friday, February 18 – Patrick Chapin Top 8ed Pro Tour Paris with a Grixis Tezzeret deck – read how the deck came to be and how it works! If you’re thinking about running the deck at StarCityGames.com Open: DC, you better look here first!

…It took the Frenchies about thirty seconds to devise the plan of just holding Mana Leak, Lightning Bolt, Disfigure, Vampire…

…x Rampant Growth 4 x Prismatic Omen 3 x Mana Leak 1 x See Beyond 4 x Cryptic Command 2…

Need to catch up on the state of Standard before SCG Open Series: San Diego? Then read Mike Byrne’s detailed overview of the current metagame.

…Anyway, since we lost Ponder and Mana Leak, Delver has pretty much fallen out of favor. These Flash decks are…

…I think the deck needs [card] Viridian Emissary [/card] over one of the mana rocks simply because of all the…

…Roil | Instant | | Enlightened Tutor | Instant | | Intuition | Instant | | Mana Tithe | Instant | | Mana Leak | Instant | | Momentary Blink | Instant | | Memory Lapse | Instant | | Path…

…The cut-off for these cards seems to be at two mana, as Miscalculation and Mana Leak are rarely played…

Puresteel Paladin decks are picking up steam in Standard. Caleb Durward made 2nd place in a PTQ with a U/W list. Here’s Mike Flores’s take on the archetype!

…If he is U/W, you need to play faster than, or around, Mana Leak; otherwise I won’t tend…

…Lightning Bolt, Mana Leak, Rampant Growth, and others are good choices for textless cards because they are widely played and…

…With 8 colorless lands and Mana Leak running rampant in the format, it's important to make our land drops…

The God Hand: Turn 3: Forest, Deconstruct Cathodion. Tap Mountain. 3GGGR in pool. Cast Seething Song. 1RRRRRGG in pool. Cast Biorhythm with Birds of Paradise in play. Shake hands while she stares in disbelief, since she thought that she was safe tapping out on turn 3.

…well, but she had no idea to keep Mana Leak mana open. Isochron Scepter with Boomerang is amazing, and she…

…Archangel's Light - I like the effect, but we need to watch out for the late game Mana Leak. What…

Monday, December 20th – Want a new way to playtest your cube? Thea suggests building constructed decks out of your cube decks to both test the cube and introduce the cube to new players! Try it on your own cube!

…Plains Izzet Ancestral Recall<br> Condescend<br> Impulse<br> Mana Leak<br> Miscalculation<br> Telling Time<br> Crater Hellion<br…

Brian DeMars went the distance and made 12th at the Pro Tour with a deck he worked on called ErhnamGeddon. Land destruction, Kavu Predator, and Punishing Grove make for a dangerous combination!

…In game two he played Runeclaw Bear on turn two and walked his islandwalk Crocodile into my Mana Leak —which…

…Armageddon Mana Leak Phyrexian Obliterator Greater Gargadon Oracle of Mul Daya Sword of Light and Shadow Taiga Spiritmonger Unearth Terror…

Monday, February 21 – Faeries is completely wrecking the PTQ metagame! Has no one figured out how to properly beat it yet? It’s still not too late! Gavin Verhey gives you the tricks to beat the ultimate tricksters.

…Discard is one for one; Mana Leak is one for one; removal is one for one — and even if both…

Todd Anderson was a huge proponent of Temur Twin. But now that’s all over. What deck has jumped to for #SCGCOL’s Modern Classic? He provides the details of his Modern transformation here!

…While Remand is the current frontrunner in the deck, I could see something like Mana Leak making a comeback. It…

Monday, August 9th – Hello friends! Welcome back to the column dedicated to the casual side of Magic. Today is my 350th weekly article for StarCityGames.com. In celebration, I was trying to brainstorm a good idea. I realized that I like big decks. Why not build a deck of 350 cards?

…You also have Mana Leak, which I am sure you can see is quality in this deck. I wanted a…

Friday, August 27th – Brian Kibler rocked into U.S. Nationals with a Fauna Bant deck and a winning smile. Sadly, things didn’t go according to plan, but much fun was had nonetheless. He tells his tale today.

…double digit power creature on turn 4” even has Mana Leak as backup to handle the new hotness. Mythic was…

…Tarn ]fetch lands[/card] to put them out of Mana Leak range, and perhaps his time has come again. Jace…

…Along with the addition of Mana Leak, the refocus towards a planeswalker offense rather than a creature-forcing one gave…

Tuesday, October 19th – Jon Medina explains how building momentum in your trade binder is more important than getting value! Also, how will social networking change how you make money? Which are the latest cards to keep an eye on?

…My instinct said that it was good because of the synergy with<br> Mana Leak, but at the time, it…

…Cheap fliers, (Lantern Kami, Suntail Hawk, etc.) Pride of the Clouds, and a combination of Remand and Mana Leak. The…

…White Sun's Zenith also interacts very nicely with instants like Mana Leak, Into the Roil, and especially the pair…

The title says it all! Whether you’re looking to speed under them or disrupt and clock them, GerryT has the lists and the plans you need for your upcoming Modern events!

…to be much worse against big mana than the one with Mana Leak, but Dragonlord Ojutai is something I’m…

Was Wizards of the Coast trying to break Standard in half, or did it merely succeed? The appearance of Felidar Guardian in the same block as Saheeli Rai has Patrick Chapin wondering what on Earth is going on. He’s seen this movie before, and today he shares his earliest decks that might help you survive the sequel!

…if we went another way) gives us turn 2 Mana Leak potential. What’s more, when we actually go for…

Josh took Solar Pox to Champs. After all, the deck had pedigree – it placed first in the recent StarCityGames.com $1500 Standard Tournament. Unfortunately for Mr. Ravitz, it was not enough to propel him to the top tables… nevertheless, he shares his insights on the deck, and reports on the full day of play.

…He also had Putrefy and Mana Leak. All in all, a typical B/U/G creature deck. He didn’t…

…Birds of Paradise, Duress, Mana Leak, and Enlightened Tutor are all fine cards, but they tend to merely shore up…

Tuesday, September 28th – Follow pro Anton Jonsson in a pick by pick draft on Magic Online! Watch as he assembles a R/W deck and discusses his decisions in between picks!

…He even has Cancel for my Inspired Charge and Mana Leak for Excommunicate <br> but I have still only drawn…

…I've seen similar decks splash blue for Meddling Mage, Mana Leak, or Unified Will. What makes the Nevermore plan…

…He would wait to play his first spell past a Mana Leak, for example. He would not play a second…

Shaheen has a highly polarized look of M15 to share from the extreme view of a dedicated control mage for life, and shares his updates to Esper Control for the new Standard metagame!

…That success was on the back of this card as the control “finisher” along with Mana Leak, Grave Titan, and…

Read about the Standard deck that renowned rogue brewer Adrian Sullivan has been playing a lot lately and feels is a reasonable choice for SCG Open Series: Atlanta featuring the Invitational this weekend.

…on red sweepers to survive the early game, making Mana Leak and the like suddenly live. Ramp had to change…

…The other side is a slightly better Mana Leak, which already sees basically no play. Decks right now have already…

…allowing you to keep developing your manabase until enemy Mana Leak becomes irrelevant or an opening presents itself. So if…

Unlike Vintage, Legacy deck construction hinges more on “building blocks” rather than individual broken cards. It means that despite the huge card pool, there is actually a very restricted range of available tools (read: good cards) to use, many of which are highly conditional. Today I’m going to give you an extensive breakdown of the various building blocks available to Legacy deckbuilders and contribute a fresh deck of my own for your perusal.

…What do you do when Landstill turns over Swords, FoW, Standstill, Crucible, and Mana Leak? How do you even begin…

Patrick Chapin goes over the top with Trading Post and Disciple of Bolas in some new takes on Mono-Black and Tezzeret Control. If you want to be up to date for SCG Open: Las Vegas, tune in.

…Phantasmal Image, Restoration Angel, Ponder, Thought Scour, Gitaxian Probe, Mana Leak, Vapor Snag, Gut Shot, Mental Misstep, Mutagenic Growth, Sword…

…This card was printed as a solution to Mana Leak in the current Standard environment, yet Eternal formats could see…

…A mana screwed opponent and verdant touch let me issue massive beatings with the angel, but not after taking alot…

…Chronarch<br> Last Gasp<br> Looter il-Kor<br> Mana Leak<br> Mystical Teacthings<br> Pyroclasm<br> Remand<br> Repeal…

…If you can reduce the mana cost of a token to one green mana, then you can tap that creature…

…Fiend Hunter, Oblivion Ring, Mana Leak, and other such cards that make paying 4 mana for some big idiot a…

Wednesday, September 3rd – While our attention builds towards the arrival of Alara, savvy deckbuilders know the importance of learning the lessons of Yesterday before looking to build the future of Tomorrow. Combining historical perspective, anecdote, and trading advice, Rich Hagon brings us a long hard look at the 907 cards that are going to leave Standard in just a few short weeks. What should you hold onto and why? Coldsnap launches the series.

…counterspell at 2 mana, even if it wasn’t strictly Counterspell, and initially worse than Mana Leak (while subsequent copies…

…down his play and blew me out with [card] Mana Leak [/card] and [card]Black Sun’s Zenith[/card]…three…

…UU Counterspell, 1U Mana Leak and 1UU Dissipate) counterspell? What do Control decks generally have in their hand? More counters…

…He repeats this sequence on turn four, and this time he has Mana Leak for my Putrefy. I drop Azorius…

…s math for soft counters like Spell Pierce and Mana Leak. One trick is to run out Through the Breach…

…To compensate for the bad mana, some switched to inferior cards, like [card] Mana Leak [/card] over [card] Counterspell [/card…

Does Modern need a banning… or does Magic need a rules change? Ross Merriam, Ari Lax, and PVDDR debate Kaldheim’s impact on Constructed Magic.

…The problem is the three-mana cascade cards. They’ve caused a lot of trouble over the years, and it…

…I'm thinking that this is typical; I get a really good deck and will lose to mana problems. In…