mana screw
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.25 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Because he knows how to design his deck to avoid mana screw (or the opposite and usually equally deadly mana glut)."
- "Also, I think that not enough shuffling in Magic tends to result in very poor hands, characterized by mana screw or mana flood."
- "This is why we occasionally experience "mana screw" (too little mana) and "mana flood" (too much mana), even though the mana sources are randomly distributed throughout the deck."
- "Game 1 and 2 I get horribly manascrewed. I never have more than 2 lands."
- "Opponent, on the other hand, can't cast more than one spell a turn without manascrewing himself (less than that if you have multiple Breaches), and can never use the Oath or even dump his hand to prevent you from using it."
- "In game 2, I am again sort of manascrewed, as I am held to 3 lands, 2 Springs and a Mountain."
Usage
Inflected Forms
mana-screw (alternative)
manascrew (alternative)
mana screws (present, singular)
mana screwing (participle, present)
mana screwed (participle, past)
mana screwed (past)