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Mana Drain

Instant MV 2

Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.

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What it doesRulingsIn the 99Every version

What it does

Counter target spell. At the beginning of your next main phase, add an amount of equal to that spell's mana value.

Rulings

2 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2020-11-10

    Mana Drain's delayed triggered ability will usually trigger at the beginning of your precombat main phase. However, if you cast Mana Drain during your precombat main phase or during your combat phase, its delayed triggered ability will trigger at the beginning of that turn's postcombat main phase.

  • 2020-11-10

    If the target spell is an illegal target by the time Mana Drain tries to resolve, Mana Drain doesn't resolve. You don't add mana at the beginning of your next main phase. If the target is legal but not countered (most likely because an effect says that the spell can't be countered), you do add mana.

Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Mana Drain, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 14
Games played 5
Win rate 0%
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Most played under

Commander Decks Games Win rate
Urza, Lord High Artificer 1 5 0%
Bard, King of Dale 1 0 —
Cosmic Spider-Man 1 0 —
Eluge, the Shoreless Sea 1 0 —
Phenax, God of Deception 1 0 —
The Ur-Dragon 1 0 —
Tom Bombadil 1 0 —
Tony Stark // The Invincible Iron Man 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Five-Color 3 decks
  • Mono-Blue 2 decks
  • Izzet 2 decks
  • Dimir 1 deck
  • Azorius 1 deck

Every version of Mana Drain

10 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly — a printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall genuinely publishes none for some of them.

Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Mana Drain — a name search across every version, for the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.

Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only — no individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.