Does Mana Burn still exist?
Asked by Obahai 13 years ago
Does the Mana Burn rule still exist/is it still the same?
To clarify, there is no more mana burn. If there is still mana in your pool at end of turn, it simply goes away.
July 13, 2011 7:17 p.m.
Actually Leardawg, the mana pool empties at the end of each step.
July 13, 2011 8:18 p.m.
deadmanwalking says... #4
Each player's mana pool empties at the end of each phase and each step. Mana burn has not been implemented as an official rule since the rule revisions of Magic 2010, as Leardawg said.
Now, does it exist? well the simple fact that you are aware of it and that you are asking questions about it means that it must exist. Even if it didn't, simply by asking about it, you'd have created it, and then it would exist XD
July 13, 2011 8:25 p.m.
emblasochist says... #5
For informational purposes, the mana burn rule was that, if at the end of a turn (possibly at the end of each phase, I cant recall), there was mana in a player's mana pool, the player took 1 life loss per mana in the mana pool, and that mana was 'drained' from that mana pool. Like posters before have said, this is no longer in the game. Now, at the end of steps and phases, if there is mana in a player's mana pool, it just is drained; you no longer take 1 point of life damage for it.
July 14, 2011 12:32 a.m.
xxxxxxCronoxxxxxx says... #6
they got rid of mana burn when they got rid of responding to combat damage in the dreaded 2010 rule change
thats another change i hated about 2010 rule change
but the mana pool still emptyes at the end of every phase unless a card says other wise
July 14, 2011 3:07 a.m.
emblasochist says... #8
I miss it. These damn upstarts spending mana willy-nilly without any care of mana-burn is terrible. Why, in my day, you casted a spell with your life through Channel , a few Lotuses, the sweat off your brow, and you always used exactly how much you needed. No mana was ever wasted, lest you get hit with the dreadbeast 'Manaburn'.
July 14, 2011 4:23 a.m.
and we'd had to ramp with 4 Llanowar Elves uphill, both ways!
July 14, 2011 5:38 a.m.
theemptyquiver says... #10
Maybe the llanowar elf thing is true, but i still do not miss it.
July 14, 2011 11:17 a.m.
Actually, I miss mana burn. It made you think and consider things a lot more carefully. You had to plan your plays a lot more. It required more skill and patience. You wouldn't have been able to have a Lotus Cobra sitting there making mana that you had no intention of using without some kind of a repercussion. The mana acceleration has gotten out of control and mana burn would have kept it in check a little more.
July 14, 2011 11:45 a.m.
xxxxxxCronoxxxxxx says... #12
i could also use cards to give people lots of mana that i could deal with but they could not, its was fun killing people with mana burn
July 14, 2011 11:59 a.m.
Power Surge I will never have a use for you again... I actually have fond memories of that deck... Add me to the "will miss" list.
Leardawg says... Accepted answer #1
Not since M10 was released.
July 13, 2011 7:16 p.m.