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…being Acidic Slime and you have bounce spells and Mana Leak. The worst matchup is Valakut but your sideboard answers…

…ve had knights of the mist, biskillion, dismiss, scragnoth, mana leak, wasteland,<br> and sandstorm. Looking at it first there…

…of the Moat Mahamoti Djinn Makindi Sliderunner Mana Crypt Mana Leak Mana Tithe Manamorphose Manglehorn Man-o'-War Mantle of…

…both of my men, and had enough mana left over to Mana Leak my Mortify. And that was the end…

…I shuffle my hand, and he pulls both land!! Jammy Bastich! :-) I'm mana-screwed for the rest of the…

Reid looks at updating his signature Jund deck, working with the new M14 cards and what he expects others to start playing as the format shifts. Also: Reid’s Hall of Fame vote!

…Since Olivia is a vampire by default, it only costs five mana for Player A to take control of the…

Tuesday, March 22 – What’s it like to be a true Magic Online grinder? Day in, day out? Trying to make Qualifying Points? Check out Bing’s journal, in which he records his day-to-day activity on Magic Online and which decks he plays.

…It has a lot of games that play out Mana Leak into Jace into<br> Grave Titan like the old…

…Mana Leak on the front when sacrificed, and a clause that stops your noncreature spells being countered on the back…

…Blue had 2x Mana Leak but that was pretty much it as far as exciting Blue cards. The curve is…

…Vedalken Engineer<br> Illusions of Grandeur<br> Mirror Mockery<br> Mana Leak<br> Contamination Season 3 Episode 21 Answer Hollow…

Thursday 4:06 p.m. Get home from work. 4:07 p.m. Mare tells me to take her upstairs or “face her wrath.” 5:30 p.m. Get dressed. Try to wipe silly grin off face. Fail. 5:31 p.m. Tell wife I’m going to win Regionals now.

…Mana Leak. Sorcerers. Meloku. A few other things. In the three sessions he’s tested it, we’ve tuned it…

…I cast Trinket Mage on turn three, but he has the Mana Leak. I have no hand, so I could…

I realize a U/W Control Onslaught Block decklist is nothing new, but it was groundbreaking when my teammate Ian Welter came up with the idea a month and a half ago. The extra month I had to test the deck before Grand Prix: London made all the difference. My deck was better tuned, and I knew how to play it better than the hordes of people who had been playing it for only a week….

…Mana Leak is a great upgrade over Complicate, and having Wrath of God on turn 4 makes Goblins a much…

Last week, in the Philosophy of Fire, I talked about the death of one of my pet decks. Though I had put considerable effort into the Big Red deck, its burial ended up being bearable for me because I had another Rogue deck that I liked even more. This deck was the culmination of dozens of hours of testing and tuning and theory in working with another designer for whom I have a lot of respect. He spilled the beans in his own column on another site, so I figure, especially if I am not playing the deck anyway, I’d write a more exhaustive article, talking about the development of the deck and how we came to the conclusions we came to.

…is so good, but with Affinity once again wielding Mana Leak to fight your Vengeance, the best deck in the…

…both excellent, but the diminishing returns on additional [Card] Mana Leak [/Card]s and purely defensive counters is too high…

Thursday, April 30th – Last week, Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa presented some excellent advice on the art of the mulligan. He also shared a selection of sample hands, and promised pro opinion in today’s piece. He didn’t disappoint… today, those sample hands are analyzed by Manuel Bucher, Olivier Ruel, Sam Black, Martin Juza, and Ben Lundquist!

…Usually you need two good draw steps to make the hand good (Spell Snare or Mana Leak into Thirst for…

My testing took place in a relative vacuum — with help from friends back home, but little to no access to pro testing information, I pieced together a fairly accurate picture of the metagame and I built my deck accordingly. I want to make sure that everyone who wants it — the PTQ win, the PT, the gravy train — really understands that it is possible.

…If he’s playing U/G Control with Mana Leak and not Mind’s Desire, then I guess I’m…

Chas Andres would love to tell you about the insane market week Modern is having (so he does), but he also has to examine the rest of Oath of the Gatewatch’s stellar spoiler action! The market on this one is a doozy!

…The fact that Eldrazi Displacer needs white mana to cast (there are no other white Eldrazi) and colorless mana to…

…Bolt range), I drop Psychosis Crawler – he has a Mana Leak. He plays a Mimic Vat, and I Skinrender my…

Recently Kyle detailed his thoughts on exactly why U/W Mind’s Desire is the right call in the current metagame. This past weekend he put his money where his mouth is and came back with a great tournament report to boot.

…Mana Leak doesn’t always get it done, but Lapse will buy you the time you need. If you like…

There are two sorts of multicolored cards in Ravnica. Yesterday we looked at the “traditional” two-color cards, where R&D forces us to choose both Red and White, both Black and Green. Today’s Guild mana is the opposite: though the cards are multicolored, both Green and White for a Selesnya card, let’s say, you can pick either color of mana to pay the cost. Guild mana is a completely new thing to Magic, but the question is: Are any of the new cards any good? [ White ] [ Blue ] [ Black ] [ Red ] [ Green ] [ Gold ]

…turn two (though it may be competing with a Mana Leak). I can see playing this to ramp out Cranial…

…Meanwhile 2 Walls of Souls come my way along with a Mana Leak, a Spindrift, and a Lab Rats. Going…

Patrick “The Innovator” Chapin continues his popular rundown of all the major (and some not-so-major) blue and black cards of Ixalan. Pirates and Dinosaurs (and more…)? Oh my!

…A Mana Leak that needs four mana is crazy. Kitesail Freebooter With an almost Faeries-esque disruption and annoyance package…

…Meanwhile 2 Walls of Souls come my way along with a Mana Leak, a Spindrift, and a Lab Rats. Going…

…Meanwhile 2 Walls of Souls come my way along with a Mana Leak, a Spindrift, and a Lab Rats. Going…

Nats is one of those nice events for the pros, as we get to play real life MTG in our own countries only about twice a year. Due to this fact, I usually put quite a lot of effort in and this year was no exception. I felt that I would be well prepared enough for the Limited portion of the event because I did so much practice for PT: London, which was the same exact format. This left me with quite a lot of time to only have to concentrate on one thing: Constructed. Now anyone that knows me knows just how much I loathe a game involving sixty-card decks, but I was still prepared to give it a go and see if there was a deck that I liked the look of in the current format.

…Top and somehow drawing a land instead of a Mana Leak. Martin gets a bit flooded in games 2 and…

…It gave us very solid utility cards like Shard Phoenix, Mana Leak, and Mox Diamond. Mogg Maniac is a classic…

Jim’s back and he’s burning! Can his new CounterBurn deck survive the rigors of an actual tourney?

…Although not as powerful as Mana Leak or even Miscalculation, it gives the deckbuilder a new spell to play with…

Here it is, folks! Our Morningtide set review, looking at the cards that’ll make a splash in the Extended metagame. Our host today is Richard Feldman, who’ll lead you through the runners and riders in the race to make an Extended splash. Early next week, Zac Hill takes over to bring us some deck applications with the new cards, before Richard returns to share his Tribal thoughts. As for a Standard set review… come back tomorrow.

…As Blue decks these days aren’t even playing Mana Leak yet, a far more versatile card that can come…

…Mana Leak can be replaced by Rune Snag (not Remand, since a lot of the decks play free spells and…

Inspired by Adam Grydehrmha’s recent article, Chris decided to give U/R Isochron Scepter a run at a recent Standard tourney and details his results here for all to see. He also includes one of the largest cheesecake sections ever seen on StarCityGames.com.

…made sure to wait until I had potential Mana Leak -paying mana available), he conceded. You know how sometimes, while…

…Counterspell 1 x Miscalculation 1 x Remand 1 x Mana Leak 1 x Bonded Fetch 1 x Man-o’-War…

…Blue Tier 1 - Aether Adept, Frost Breath, Merfolk Looter Tier 2 - Divination, Aven Fleetwing, Chasm Drake, Mana Leak, Skywinder Drake…

…This could have easily have been Counterspell or Mana Leak, but I figured that with my deck, I'd rather…

…This list starts with Mana Leak, Smother as well as Jace, the Mind Scuptor, and with the help of a…

The colorless cards in 8 th Edition are a mixed bunch. There are some very good, first-pick quality cards. There are also a large number of awful cards. Here are some points to note about artifacts in the format. Note that I have also included the non-basic lands in this section, for the sake of completeness. Not that there are enough of them to interfere with the flow of the article much. Some artifacts should be picked higher than the equivalent colored card, because they don’t commit you to a color. Phyrexian Hulk for example is a perfectly acceptable first pick, because it is going to make your deck and be a reasonable card regardless of what colors you end up playing. On the other hand, when using artifact creatures, remember that Naturalize and Shatter can rain on your parade just as well as any creature destruction spell. Bear this in mind when setting up gang blocks or alpha strikes.

…not Instants your opponents can just wait until his turn to play) are the three counterspells (Remove Soul, Mana Leak…

…Ravenous Skirge? Cursed Scroll, Fireslinger, Shock, Cursed Flesh, Hurricane, Mana Leak. What runs over a Ravenous Skirge? Mogg Flunkies, Soltari…

…since the leak and it was a poor use of resources since it required so much mana, even in the…

In a previous article, Chris examined the Staple Rares that every budget player should aim to own . However, he neglected to cover the majority of Kamigawa rares, due to their diminishing Standard shelf-life. After many cries for help, he returns today to set the record straight…

…Against Hinder, Remand, Rewind, and Mana Leak, though, it’s worth its weight in gold. Tendo Ice Bridge – Color fixing…

…Any vestige of prominent counterspell presence in Standard was extinguished when Mana Leak rotated out. Although a large permission suite…

…Mana Leak is the best two-mana counterspell in Standard, Perplex is pretty darned good for three mana, and Induce…

…of a turn 2 Mana Leak or Wall of Omens etc. Another good set of mana fixing is never a…

…I like moving to 3 Mana Leak, as often they’re completely dead late-game and you want to minimize…

Avid cubesman Adam Prosak shares his thoughts about the Magic Online Cube, including nine ugly truths, 20 cards that absolutely need to be cut, the 20 most underrated cards in the cube, and possible additions.

…Zac Hill told my stream that he’d rather see Mana Leak in Standard than Miscalculation, and this. Dismember is…

…going! Props: - Cheap + awesome food in Amsterdam - Playing around Mana Leak whenever possible - Volkswaffle for being freakin’ awesome - Feeding time…

…The [card]Sun Titan[/card] that he has been sand-bagging to wait to have [card] Mana Leak [/card] mana…

…This could have easily have been Counterspell or Mana Leak, but I figured that with my deck, I'd rather…

…Lórien Revealed | | Blue | Malcolm, Alluring Scoundrel | | Blue | Mana Drain | | Blue | Mana Leak | | Blue | Memory Lapse | | Blue | Miscalculation | | Blue | Mystic Confluence…

Gavin finishes off his epic series on Modern with a guide to sideboarding against all the major beatdown, combo, and control decks in the format. Looking for sideboard cards/ideas? Here’s the first place to look.

…While Cursecatcher, Spell Pierce, and Mana Leak are still cards you have to play around, this means you can tap…

If you’re running a Standard gauntlet, Patrick Chapin recommends a focus on U/B Control, Wolf Run Ramp, and Mono Red. Where will the metagame take us next?

…Mage, Forbidden Alchemy, Think Twice) Permission- 13 (Snapcaster Mage, Mana Leak, Dissipate, Negate) Removal- 12 (Snapcaster Mage, Wring Flesh, Doom…