mana weave

plural mana weaves · alternative mana-weave

1. Magic: The GatheringThe act of stacking one's deck to ensure even distribution of land cards.

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

   1997 November 16, Roger Wink, “Re: Tournament Shuffling”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.misc (Usenet)

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   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.

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

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

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1. Magic: The GatheringTo stack one's deck to ensure even distribution of land cards.

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

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

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

   1997 June 19, James Darby, “Re: A Little Survey: Cheating”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.misc (Usenet)

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

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