Am I the only one who thinks Mana Leak is bad?
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Posted on Nov. 20, 2011, 6:44 p.m. by TylerJohns
Am I?
Personally, I feel like a jerk when I counter things. But then, I am the one who actually playa [knowledge pool]]. So I only play removal, and Flashfreeze 'cuz wolf run is brutal lol.
November 20, 2011 7:08 p.m.
LOL, how is it bad? You just have to play it right man. You wanna counter big spells, not something they can pay to let it resolve, that's the point.
November 20, 2011 7:10 p.m.
rckclimber777 says... #6
mana leak is one of my personal favorites. Any blue deck I play with typically has a couple floating around in it. Sure it doesn't always work like it is supposed to and sometimes I prefer dissipate, but mana leak is great for when your opponent just doesn't expect it.
November 20, 2011 8:04 p.m.
I love Mana Leak ! either use it when the game is starting to block their first creatures or etc, or counter something big that they can't pay to ignore, it's all about the timing, like the rest of the game. Looking at their hand helps tremendously
November 20, 2011 8:21 p.m.
Mana Leak is amazing early-mid game. it doesn't really pack quite a punch when during the late game, when they have enough land to pay for a titan and the mana leak cost or have enough mana for their own counter spell
the best things to counter in the standard format with Mana Leak would be Titans, Hero of Bladehold , Birthing Pod , Phyrexian Crusader , and of course, other Mana Leak s
Mana Leak is also part of a two step move for many control decks, the move being Mana Leak important card of opponent, the counter resolves, then Surgical Extraction the important card
November 21, 2011 3:13 a.m.
TheMonoOne says... #9
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mceFU0Lo16k
You're just wrong. Nuff said.
November 21, 2011 3:39 a.m.
leak is probs best standard common for most people...not the favorite but best.
November 21, 2011 6:44 a.m.
in casual and EDH it is garbage because of the better counters avaiable or the ones that aren't complete crap late game but in standard it is simply great namely Counterspell !! lol. Cryptic Command is my personal favourite though :-)
November 21, 2011 7:58 a.m.
i meant Counterspell one of the better examples sorry
November 21, 2011 7:59 a.m.
counterspell is better.....IN monocolor decks mostly lol try that in 2 color early game or 3 color mid game ull have probs
November 21, 2011 8:07 a.m.
meh not with the amount of dual colour land in the world, but i agree with what you are saying, still Mana Leak is far to easy to avoid some times which can make it terrible. if you are running super land like the ravnica and shadowmoor land (which you bloody should be in casual! for example) then you should not really ever have a problem as them lands are just too damn good! :-). but again this is all casual talk so really if you miss the counterspell turn 2 for some reason it probs wont make much difference to your life. what we should be doing is setting up your game using Isochron Scepter with the counterspell on it. now that baby dont need no colours yo! :-)
November 21, 2011 8:38 a.m.
i love it. Sitting there while they drop a Wurmcoil Engine turn 6 with 6 land and you just say no its pretty nice to have even if you only have two just for protection
November 21, 2011 10:57 a.m.
Mana Leak is good because 1)When people cast spells, they usually cast it as soon as they have enough mana (unless it's removal of a counterspell) and 2)If someone casted a spell 3 turns after it could have been cast, at that point in the game its impact would not be as profound (unless, again, it's a counterspell or removal).
November 21, 2011 1:07 p.m.
No. Mana leak is definitely a cool card and its the most rounded standard counter. But after turn 5 its a dead card unless the right situation comes up. it does still disadvantage the player late game by making them tap land they could have used for something else. but its nothing compared to the OG Counterspell . Its a bittersweet card for me.
November 21, 2011 4:52 p.m.
masterpeez says... #19
No. Mana leak sucks late game. Especially against control, with their 26 land count. A lot of my friends hate it and only run Cancel and other unconditional counterspells.
Rhadamanthus says... #2
Maybe not the only one, but one of the very few.
November 20, 2011 6:56 p.m.