Citations:color screw
English citations of color screw, color-screw, colorscrew, and colour screw
Noun: "(Magic: The Gathering) the condition of having an insufficient supply of the correct color of mana" edit
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- 1997 March 3, Lawrence Chancy, “Re: T2 Deck Focus on Black Swarm”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy[3] (Usenet):
- Unlike old necro and past black weenie decks the bulk of the creatures and key spells do not require 2 black and therefore playing a multicolor variant is not asking for colorscrew like it has in the past.
- 1997 May 22, Christopher Dearlove, “Re: My mana screw proposal: a defense”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy[5] (Usenet):
- Someone else having opened it up I'd like to point out that this is particularly true of "colour screw" i.e. not a total absence of mana, but of (usually) one colour of a multiple colour using deck.
- 2003 March 31, Lee Sharpe, “Re: Could someone explain fetch lands to me?”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.rules[16] (Usenet):
- Presumably, the reason one would play pain lands is to avoid "color screw" -- the situation where you can't play some of the spells in your hand because you don't have access to mana of that color.