mana flood

plural mana floods

1. countableuncountableMagic: The GatheringThe condition of having or drawing too many mana sources and insufficient spells.

   Include some cycling lands too and the threat of mana flood pretty much vanishes.

   1999 November 10, Trevor Barrie, “Alternative green control deck”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy (Usenet)

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   If you do anything about the mana screw problem, you increase the probability of a mana flood even further.

   1997 October 30, Warrl kyree Tale'sedrin [uername], “Re: Too many cards?”, 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 August 9, Ben Kidwell, “Re: Stat:Randomness Theory [Was Cheating S.O.Bs]”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy (Usenet)

   Synonyms: mana glut