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…Let’s take a look at the figures - Blackborder.com is paying $.25 each for Preordain and Mana Leak and…

Find out which cards Todd thinks will make a splash at the first major Standard tournament featuring Return to Ravnica, the StarCityGames.com Standard Open in Cincinnati this Saturday!

…Without an easy answer like Ratchet Bomb or the existence of Mana Leak in the format, I think that Entreat…

Dave presents us with not one, not two, not three … but four Standard decklists. Updating the stronger archetypes in the current Standard with new cards from Dissension, this article is a fine springboard from which to plan your respective Regional assaults.

…Umezawa’s Jitte, Izzet Signet, Remand, Mana Leak, Watchwolf, Kami of Ancient Law, Eye of Nowhere, Volcanic Hammer, Selesnya Guildmage…

…This allows me to Safeguard myself from Mana Leak and other things that like to disrupt the critical turn style…

…the traditional counterspell suite of [card] Remand [/card], [card] Mana Leak [/card], and [card] Spell Snare [/card], as threat diversity…

…I had five mana available still, thanks to Mana Vault. He was holding five cards, with an untapped Command Tower…

Ashley Morway has seen multiple PTQ Top 8s and one win and is trying to get back to the Pro Tour with Valakut. Read why she decided on specific, debated card choices and how the deck plays out against a variety of matchups.

…Caw-Blade decks, trying to Mana Leak my spells or just keep Titans and Valakuts off the table, have a…

Check out what Grand Prix Boston-Worcester winner Brian DeMars has learned about Modern and the tech he has discovered while preparing for Grand Prix San Diego.

…Where Snapcaster goes, so goes Spell Snare, Mana Leak, and Cryptic Command. I would seriously consider Cavern as an option…

John Dale Beety loves a good promo foil. In this article, he speculates on the future FNM promos, Grand Prix promos, and judge foils. It’s Future Foil League!

…Mana Leak, due to its textless version, and Serum Visions, which has an Arena foil. *Black shortlist* – Bump in the…

…Later successful U/W decks ranged from White Weenie splashing Blue for Sleight of Mind (and later Mana Leak), to…

…Arcane Denial, Memory Lapse, Miscalculation and Mana Leak (coming soon to a core set near you!) have appeared in base…

Get caught up on the state of the Standard metagame before SCG Open Series: Seattle with championship deckbuilder Mike Flores’ analysis of the Top 8 of Pro Tour Theros!

…but draws cards like Cryptic Command, Mana Leak, or Thwart that allows them to keep the initiative through your key…

Wednesday, January 14th – As Grand Prix: Los Angeles approaches, LSV takes a look at one of the decks that’s currently flying under the radar: Red/Green Burn/Beats. Basing its strategy on the popular Burn Deck Wins, and upgrading its potency with a collection of powerful animals, could this aggressive deck break out a Top 8 performance this weekend? Read on to find out!

…The absurdity of a two mana 4/5 or 5/6 being thought of as slow is pretty funny, but…

Shaun doesn’t like sideboarding guides, but he gets asked for them all the time by readers and in online conversations. Here he presents his universal guide to sideboarding guides.

…It gets better on the draw when Mana Leak gets worse and they’re more likely to resolve an early…

Bing Luke was one of a handful of players who got a chance to participate in the Magic Online Community Cup. He’s got some stories to share, some games to talk about, and some opinions on the Modern format.

…Add one mana of any color to your mana pool. Spend this mana only to cast spells of the chosen…

…I try not to run any Mana Leak effects as I only look for hard counters. (I do have some…

…This then provides access to Mana Leak and Counterspells to provide some tempo plays, and Snapcaster Mage as a way…

I present to you, dear reader, five U/x control decks, and I ask you to consider them and perhaps comment on them in the forums. I know that they’re not all Tier 1, but each of them has a different intent and focuses on a different area of Blue-style control. Take a look, see what you think, and get to work controlling your games!

…As I’ve mentioned, I feel that Rune Snag is better than Mana Leak in a long-term deck like…

SCG Legacy Open: Seattle 2010 winner Kyle Boddy reviews the second edition of the Magic Online Cube, including the changes he does and doesn’t like, his top three favorite archetypes, and more!

…them, so pairing your green mana ramp deck with 2-3 counterspells like Mana Leak, Miscalculation, or Glen Elendra Archmage…

When last you heard from me, I had just snagged my first Grand Prix Top 8 in Orlando with a sweet Humans deck, and I was gearing up for the StarCityGames.com Open in Washington D.C. This is the story of that tournament.

…My opponent played around Mana Leak by waiting and waiting on his Curse of Death’s Hold, and I drew…

Probably the most interesting article I’ve read all year is Mike Flores’ article on Interactivity. WARNING! ALERT! WARNING! I’d like to talk about Interactivity and Vintage. That means boring Magic theory to those of you who couldn’t care less. For those that do care, let’s parse what Master Flores has had to say on the subject and see how that applies to Vintage as a whole.

…mono-Blue deck that has turn 1 Mana Leak, turn 2 Mana Drain, turn 3 Ophidian and counterspell and then…

…Infantry Veteran Fog Swamp Lava Axe Runeclaw Bear Mana Leak Crystal Ball Viscera Seer Nightwing Shade Cloud Crusader Vulshok Berserker…

…Squadron Hawk<br> Squadron Hawk<br> Lightning Greaves<br> Mana Leak<br> Hide // Seek<br> Dawntreader Elk<br> Searing Blaze…

…Scour<br> Ice Cage<br> Jace’s Erasure<br> Mana Leak<br> Negate<br> Leyline of Anticipation BLACK<br> Viscera…

…He’s already a 3/3 for four mana, so that’s solid enough. Needless to say, the special ability…

Tuesday, April 19 – Drawing on copious experience, Dan Barrett details the 7 types of misplay and 4 steps you can take to eliminating them from your game.

…cards just because you have the mana/target(s) for them—casting Mana Leak on a turn 2 Bloodghast, playing…

…The deck also gets to play with more traditionally control power cards like Jace the Mind Sculptor and Mana Leak…

See what SCG Standard Open: Washington, DC winner Todd Anderson’s favorite card in Return to Ravnica so far is and why he thinks B/G Zombies will be an overwhelming favorite in the early days of new Standard.

…Phyrexian Arena, and now they don’t even have Mana Leak to help them out! While they could still play…

I started writing this at Nationals, where I came one match short of grinding in – but I lost that match, and the whole format (Type 2 w/ Skullclamp) is dead anyway, so I’ll skip the tourney report. Instead, I’ll talk about netdecking and the performance of netdecks. I’ll throw in some Magic the Puzzling stuff, and finish with an overview of the MD5 metagame so far.

…Mana Leak stops it, and I end up tapped out – meaning that I cannot even cycle Renewed Faith in response…

Wednesday, September 17th – In part one of Ben’s two-part Extended rotation critique, Ben discussed the changes in value of cards from Invasion, Planeshift, and Apocalypse. In the second part of this series, see which cards will be affected in value from Odyssey, Torment, Judgment, and 7th Edition!

…These shouldn’t matter too much until we start losing Remand and Mana Leak and Rune Snag. Opposition (Moderate) <br…

Wednesday, January 5th – Patrick examines the latest Extended PTQ results, and it looks like Faeries may yet again be public enemy number one. Check out Patrick’s brews for beating the flying fiends.

…Both have merit, but with both, the puzzle continues to be resolving the tension with Mana Leak. I don’t…

Garruk, Primal Hunter may be in the top 5 best planeswalkers of all time, and Ari Lax is here to back that up with these decks. Decks range from top of the line (RUG) to downright weird (Turbo Fog, Myr Superion Green). Check ’em out!

…I don’t think the mana or curve works out to fit in Mana Leak. Once that is gone, you…

…We start with a 2 mana 2/1 that can sacrifice to Mana Leak a noncreature spell, which is pretty…

Having myself fallen one round short of the joy of drafting Coldsnap, it is left to the two Grand Prix tournaments from last weekend to illumine us as to what is actually going on with the Limited formats that we will be seeing as key highlights this weekend at various National Championships…

…We also know a bit from the Australian National Championships thanks to an informative leak or two by New Zealander…

…I also had a backbreaking Mana Leak on his Restoration Angel, and the combination of my 4-power flyers and…

…Lightning Greaves \* 1 Icy Manipulator \* 1 Mindslaver Spells \* 1 Mana Leak \* 1 Memory Lapse \* 1 Fact or Fiction \* 1 Upheaval…

…This is the main reason Mana Leak was such an important printing. Removal Removal is what you use to deal…

…4 Primeval Titan with 3 extra mana to spare for a Mana Leak that I didn’t even have. I…

…I learned the power of cheap counter magic, in Arcane denial, power sink and later mana leak. I built my…

…That’s because situations in Magic are almost endless… I mean, how much life does a Mana Leak give you…

…Mana Leak and Rewind are a great start to any permission strategy, and expansion set cards like Hinder and Annul…

Wednesday, September 15th – Today, we’re going to go over the classic deckbuilding archetypes, figure out how to best exploit their advantages, and then make the correct decisions for card selection.

…Mana Leak has been the standby option for recent aggro-control decks — but people have been using cards like Delay…

…Gut Shot, two Midnight Hauntings, a Mana Leak, and a Moorland Haunt just to back it all up. My life…

…Flame Slash provides additional efficient removal, while a suite of Counterspells includes Cryptic Command, Mana Leak, Remand, Spell Snare, Spell…

…4 Mana Leak and 4 Dissipate give the deck a formidable Counterspell package. The deck has answers to everything, ensuring…

…I still think Wolf Run is a bad choice in a meta filled with tempo decks wielding [card] Mana Leak…

Today Matt shares three “holiday” brews in three different formats that corner the very narrow market commemorating tax day in the United States.

…warped around a five-mana common creature? Common removal spells like Lightning Bolt and Mana Leak have a history of…

…There was no gut punch emotion Reanimator put people on like Delver blind flip into Mana Leak, Jund with a…

…So I drop it, tapped out, no mana in the pool. Um, what's that? Mana Leak? DOH! DOH! I…

Richard continues his Pro Tour Preparation series with a look at, unsurprisingly, the Extended Graveyard decks. However, instead of bringing us fresh lists that utilize the power of the ‘yard, instead it’s the turn to showcase a few decks that attempt to bring down the dredge-based menace. Domain Zoo, Affinity, and a promising Wizards build, all built with the graveyard in mind. Will strategies such as these grace the final day of Pro Tour: Valencia?

…Martyr of Frost replacing usual suspects like Counterspell and Mana Leak. Now that Goblins seems to be falling off everyone…