mana flood

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 (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 (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 (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.

• mana glut

• mana screw