Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

mana shuffle

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.08 in modern English

Syllables: man-a shuf-fle
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The act of stacking one's deck to ensure even distribution of land cards.

verb

To stack one's deck to ensure even distribution of land cards.

Example Sentences

"Once my opponents see that I actually shuffle the deck after the mana shuffle I will almost never have a problem."
"Now I can be kicked out of at tourney because of a mana shuffle?"
"Actually, GreatLich, there ARE tournament rules for shuffling... If I remember right, they don't care if you do a mana shuffle, but the last three times (I think it is) half to be the kind of shuffling you do with playing cards... you know, one stack in each hand, and alternating bits from each stack falling.. I think it's called a "riffle shuffle"... look it up onWOTC's page :-)"
"People "mana shuffle" because of the numerous games they have played and they have found that land becomes clumped together (i.e. a "mana pocket")."
"I have never mana shuffled my deck and I never will. I go for what luck has to offer me and if I get "mana screwed", so be it."
"So, there shouldn't be any need to "mana shuffle" your deck if you're actually shuffling correctly."

Inflected Forms

mana shuffles (plural) mana shuffles (present, singular) mana shuffling (participle, present) mana shuffled (participle, past) mana shuffled (past)

Synonyms

mana weave

Questions

What does mana shuffle mean?: The act of stacking one's deck to ensure even distribution of land cards.

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