mana weave

• mana-weave

mana weave (plural mana weaves)

1. (Magic: The Gathering) The act of stacking one's deck to ensure even distribution of land cards.
   • 1997 November 16, Roger Wink, “Re: Tournament Shuffling”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.misc‎ (Usenet):

     This will tend to break up the clumps without drawing attention to yourself with the mana weave.

   • 2000 December 7, James Lyvers, “Re: R: Shuffeling?”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.rules‎ (Usenet):

     As a result I find the mana weave to be a fair means of randomizing a deck provided it is done face down, and followed by 1 or 2 riffle shuffles.

   • 2002 March 9, Simon White, “Re: Doing the Shuffle”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.misc‎ (Usenet):

     If you are using a sufficently^[sic] uncertain (I'm not going to say random)method of shuffling your deck, then the mana weave should make no differance^[sic] to the final state of the deck before game play.

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mana weave (third-person singular simple present mana weaves, present participle mana weaving, simple past mana wove, past participle mana woven)

1. (Magic: The Gathering) To stack one's deck to ensure even distribution of land cards.
   • 1997 June 19, James Darby, “Re: A Little Survey: Cheating”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.misc‎ (Usenet):

     I played against a guy yesterday who mana wove in CASUAL games.

   • 1998 July 14, Eric Taylor, “Re: Mike Long = Cheating Bastard”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy‎ (Usenet):

     Yet. . . What happens if you catch someone mana weaving their lands?

   • 1998 July 16, Chen, “Re: Mike Long = Cheating Bastard”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy‎ (Usenet):

     if you mana weave, you're reducing the chance of clumps.

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