mana weave

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mana weave (plural mana weaves)

  1. (Magic: The Gathering) The act of stacking one's deck to ensure even distribution of land cards.
    • 1997 November 16, Roger Wink, “Re: Tournament Shuffling”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.misc[1] (Usenet):
      This will tend to break up the clumps without drawing attention to yourself with the mana weave.
    • 2000 December 7, James Lyvers, “Re: R: Shuffeling?”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.rules[2] (Usenet):
      As a result I find the mana weave to be a fair means of randomizing a deck provided it is done face down, and followed by 1 or 2 riffle shuffles.
    • 2002 March 9, Simon White, “Re: Doing the Shuffle”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.misc[3] (Usenet):
      If you are using a sufficently[sic] uncertain (I'm not going to say random)method of shuffling your deck, then the mana weave should make no differance[sic] to the final state of the deck before game play.

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mana weave (third-person singular simple present mana weaves, present participle mana weaving, simple past mana wove, past participle mana woven)

  1. (Magic: The Gathering) To stack one's deck to ensure even distribution of land cards.
    • 1997 June 19, James Darby, “Re: A Little Survey: Cheating”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.misc[4] (Usenet):
      I played against a guy yesterday who mana wove in CASUAL games.
    • 1998 July 14, Eric Taylor, “Re: Mike Long = Cheating Bastard”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy[5] (Usenet):
      Yet. . . What happens if you catch someone mana weaving their lands?
    • 1998 July 16, Chen, “Re: Mike Long = Cheating Bastard”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy[6] (Usenet):
      if you mana weave, you're reducing the chance of clumps.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:mana weave.

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