what does mana leak mean by pay 3 mana? is it targeted player must tap 3 or sacrifice 3?
Asked by EpicFishMan 14 years ago
what does mana leak mean by pay 3? is it sacrifice 3 mana or tap 3 mana?
EpicFishMan, you're making the common mistake that I used to make when I started playing magic, you're confusing lands and mana.
A land is a permanent on the field with the type land. Mana is harder to define, but basically, its the ephemeral stuff that your lands tap for. So, in essence, when you tap a land (or indeed when anything else adds mana, be it birds of paradise, braid of fire or magus of the vineyard) for mana, you add that amount of mana in that colour to your mana pool, and that mana lasts until the end of the phase of the turn that you're in when you tap for that mana.
So when something asks you to pay 3, you have to pay 3 mana of any colour from your mana pool in order to satisfy that cost. If it asks for a green mana (as on Wild leotau), you have to pay 1 green mana (sourced from anything that can tap for a green mana, most commonly a forest).
btmankin says... Accepted answer #1
You use Mana Leak to counter a target spell as opponent is playing it. Before it resolves your opponent would have to tap 3 more mana of any color or the spell goes into the graveyard and does not get played.
October 10, 2010 1:04 p.m.