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CardName: Magnetic Mine #3 Cost: 5 Type: Artifact Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: {T}: Add {4} to your mana pool. You may only use this mana on one spell or ability this turn. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Multiverse Design Challenge Uncommon |
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: Add 
to your mana pool. You may only use this mana on one spell or ability this turn.
For Challenge # 099, and building forward from Magnetic Mine #2. If it's not obvious, the idea here is that the mana is 'magnetized'. You get it in a clump and can't separate it to cast multiple spells with.
To be honest, I kind of wanted to force players to use all of the mana at once, or none of it (in other words, you wouldn't be able to use the
to cast Hill Giant, since you only need 
, and you're forced to use 
,) but I wasn't sure how to parse that. Guess I got to go with the easier way to explain it, which is restriction enough.
One of those designs that would have been nicer if mana burn still existed...
I guess you could add mana burn back to this ability explicitly, that's always a possibility if it helps. But I'm not sure that really helps the flavour.
Alternatively, it could say "only use this to cast cards with [something]", but I'm not sure that does better,.
I also thought of switching in the rider "You may only cast one more spell, or activate one more non-mana ability this turn." Which gets the same idea across in a more restrictive way. But I figured the flavor is stronger the way it's written.