Mana Leak

Instant

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pauper	Legal
Pauper Duel Commander	Legal
Pauper EDH	Legal
Premodern	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (50)

9-lives on Draw 25 cards or win

1 week ago

Mana Leak may be of use.

thesilentpyro on "Casual" Anti-Rez Flash

2 weeks ago

Considerations:

Add

• 2x Daze for surprise shenanigans and Mystic Sanctuary plays
• 2x Cryptic Command because value
• 2x Brazen Borrower because need more tempo
• 1x Mystic Sanctuary because value

Cut

• 1x Nightpack Ambusher because the deck wants as much interaction as possible and 4mv finishers are hard in a tempo deck
• 2x Mana Leak to make room for 2x Daze
• 2x Mystic Snake to make room for 2x Cryptic Command and because it kinda sucks
• 1x Snow-Covered Forest to make room for the third Mystic Sanctuary and we're dropping some green requirements
• 1x Hullbreacher to make room for Brazen Borrower

legendofa on $1 Casualty EDH. One US Dollar.

3 weeks ago

MagicSteve6 Thanks for checking them out! I don't have a developed list for higher budgets for this deck, but it can be broken down into expendable creatures with power 2 or greater (including tokens), controlling instants and sorceries, and creatures that enjoy lots of instants and sorceries. Any of these areas can be pumped as needed. Looking at specific cards for this deck, Moan of the Unhallowed can create up to eight tokens between casualty and flashback, and Talrand's Invocation can create a bunch of flying tokens. There are some options for better attackers, like Spellheart Chimera and Crackling Drake. And, of course, there are many options for the control spells, from Mana Leak to Drag to the Bottom to anything else. I hope this gives you some ideas, and helps you make it your own!

wallisface on Lots of exile

3 weeks ago

Some thoughts:

• Murder and Bile Blight are really weak killspells. Aim to replace them with stuff like Fatal Push, Infernal Grasp, Victim of Night.

• Rewind is also really weak, you’d be better off with Mana Leak, or maybe Counterspell.

• imo Favorable Winds isn’t worth it, and will generally just mess with your tempo. It’d be more useful as additional killspells.

• Glen Elendra Liege also doesn’t feel hugely useful, i’d personally ditch it and run playsets of Circu, Dimir Lobotomist and Shadowmage Infiltrator, and then a few more killspells. Your deck isn’t fast so i don’t think you gain anything from making your creatures “big” - you win by controlling the board and getting incremental value from combat damage.

IXALAN_Crazy on Bluesteel Aggro

1 month ago

Thanks Chasmolinker,

Fading Hope definitely seems like a better choice. I'm also so used to putting in Mana Leak in modern that I completely forgot about Counterspell, so that's an auto include. Welding Jar in my opinion does the trick for protection over Slip Out the Back, but I may be wrong as I am currently in the process of buying this deck, so still lots of room for changes. Thanks!

Chasmolinker on Bluesteel Aggro

1 month ago

How about Fading Hope or Slip Out the Back in place of Vapor Snag. Counterspell over Mana Leak?

9-lives on Aikido of the Inward Eye and Mirror Flame

1 month ago

Got rid of Hindering Light and Mana Leak and added Justice Strike. Purely aikido, but yet probably very useful with certain cards. This is the most fun deck I've made yet.

wallisface on Manabase: Urzatron and Filter Lands …

1 month ago

I assume you’re referring to this list here?

The problems at the moment are:

• Everything that’s been said about tronlands being a bad way to accomplish this goal hold-true. This deck is going to play incredably clunky.

• 71 cards is a lot over the ideal count of 60. This is going to make your deck unwieldily, and mess up the mana base even further.

• Your deck basically can’t do anything at all until you have all the tronlands in play, and a way to make colours from them. That’s a LOT of turns doing nothing, and probably means you’re already lost. Even trying to cast something like Mana Leak looks like a logistical nightmare.

• your mana curve ends at 4-mana, so why are you needlessly complicating all this for yourself. Just play a normal land base!

I don’t mean to be rude, but the deck’s a mess