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CardName: Reclaim Mana Cost: 2UU Type: Instant Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: Counter target spell. At the start of your next Main Phase, add {4} to your mana pool. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Dark Omens Rare

Reclaim Mana

Instant

Counter target spell. At the start of your next Main Phase, add {4}

to your mana pool.

Updated on 23 Aug 2011 by Camruth

Code: RU04

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2011-01-14 03:28:34: Camruth created the card Reclaim Mana

2011-01-14 03:29:00: Camruth edited Reclaim Mana

by Alex:

Intriguing twist on reclaim, but I don't think the one extra colourless mana is worth it. Make it bigger and splashier; this is a rare, after all.

2011-01-14 23:41:20: Camruth edited Reclaim Mana

by Camruth:

Changed to Reclaim {u} {u} UEoT.

Basically makes it a counterspell that costs {2} if you reclaim after casting.

2011-01-24 02:00:40: Camruth edited Reclaim Mana

2011-08-22 01:07:18: Camruth edited Reclaim Mana

by Camruth:

When successful at countering a spell, it is effectively a Counterspell except that you can't play it on turn 2 due to its CMC of 4.

by Camruth:

I had to rework this following the change to how Reclaim works as, if played on an opponent's turn, the replacement effect was now useless.

by Alex:

See also Rewind. Which was all right, good in certain control decks, but not outstanding.

2011-08-22 08:17:26: Camruth edited Reclaim Mana

by Camruth:

hmm don't know what to do with this now!

2011-08-22 08:24:53: Camruth edited Reclaim Mana

by Camruth:

No longer a reclaim card, now "steals" the opponent's mana from their spell.

by SadisticMystic:

Mana Drain! Minus the ability to use the mana on anything important.

Oh, and by the way, Scattering Stroke.

2011-08-23 00:32:11: Camruth edited Reclaim Mana

by Camruth:

Lets try this, it is now a blend of Rewind and Mana Drain in that you get its casting coast back a-la Rewind but not until your next main phase a-la mana Drain.

This is proving a tough one to balance without just reprinting something else. Hopefully we are getting close.

by Vitenka:

Rewind I remember being terrifying with a variety of stuff, now including plain old Boros Garrison. This one, not so much - but it's still nice. And blue often finds itself hurting for mana, especially when it is intending to hold lands back for counterspells. So I like it.

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