Mana Drain
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Community Rating: 4.921 / 5  (242 votes)
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Way too situational.
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Posted By: Goatllama (3/14/2012 5:36:52 PM)
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I'm not gonna bother justifying this.
5/5
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Posted By: Sharu (3/25/2012 4:35:03 AM)
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Is this the highest rated card on Gatherer?
I thought it was Rancor before seeing this.
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Posted By: Subtle_Kay (6/23/2012 7:39:47 AM)
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Now that mana burn is gone, it's disturbingly now strictly better than counterspell. Oh my!

Just like Braid of Fire removing mana burn made some cards just broken.

5/5
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Posted By: CorkBulb (7/31/2012 8:01:01 PM)
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@ anyone who uses the words 'strictly better'

1) Get Mindslavered
2) Be forced to cast huge spell
3) Counter it with your own Mana Drain
4) Hey look your opponent still has mana to waste as ineffectively as possibru.

;)
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Posted By: DaJoshMaster (10/2/2012 3:40:31 PM)
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Not 'strictly' better than most low-cost Counterspells, just the highest potential, and pretty darn powerful that's for sure (NICE trolling with that Spell Pierce, tho!) :)

The thought of this on an Isochron Scepter is just unacceptable. Somebody burn that man before I face someone that does that to me. xP
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Posted By: DarthParallax (10/6/2012 11:50:04 AM)
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4.975/5 community rating... Holy shit, this may be the best card in MTG history ever since mana burn got taken away.
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Posted By: Continue (11/6/2012 8:39:34 PM)
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Hmm it appears the community rating search function on Gatherer may be broken, since this is not at the top when you sort by descending community rating for all cards, Unlimited Ancestral Recall is. I think it is because, in order to not have repeating cards on the list for each printing of each card, Gatherer only considers the most recent printing.
Because yeah, 4.976/5 with 184 votes. I've never seen that anywhere else.
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Posted By: pedrodyl (1/4/2013 12:31:10 PM)
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I wasn't happy the first time my spell was countered with this, I think my opponent was playing a super-annoying Stasis deck and this was the last straw. With the mana burn gone it's even crazier, 5/5 obviously and I never want to see one again. Except if you want to give yours to me.
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Posted By: velkaarn (4/2/2013 2:52:35 PM)
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It could only be more broken if it didn't cost mana. Except you could argue that it pretty much doesn't in most cases
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Posted By: gut.gemacht (5/5/2013 9:33:44 PM)
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