Reintroducing Stock Mana

Tuesday, March 9th – The winner of any Magic game is determined by the person who nets the most mana. What I mean by this is that spending mana is how you generate your advantage. Everything has a Stock Mana value (how much something is to cast) and an Equivalent Cost (how much it “should” cost, based on design guidelines in the game).

Stock mana is a theory that I wrote about in my previous column for another website. It recently picked up some notoriety because Flores talked about…

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