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Mana Skimmer

Creature — Leech3 generic manaBlack mana

Land destruction that never destroys: connect for two points of evasive damage and a land stays tapped through its controller's next untap step, putting them down a mana every turn the Leech survives. It is the soft version of the Stasis-and-tax school of mana denial, expressed as combat damage rather than an enchantment, which makes it both slower and far less hated. The flying body is the entire mechanism: the trigger keys off dealing damage to a player, so the card wants an open air lane more than it wants raw power, and a 2/2 with evasion makes a patient clock that grinds out one land lock unanswered. Where Rishadan Port or Sinkhole pays up front to strand a land, this one charges nothing extra and simply repeats: every successful attack is another untap step the opponent spends a mana short. The Leech type is flavor over function, but the design idea is a quiet one, a recurring tax stapled to an evasive attacker, so that the longer it lives the further behind on mana the defender falls. It rewards the attrition plan over the alpha strike, and it asks nothing of the rest of your deck beyond keeping the skies clear.

Mana Skimmer (tsp)
TSP · #117common
Pricing
Normal: $0.11
Foil: $0.38
Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying Whenever this creature deals damage to a player, tap target land that player controls. That land doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
Brawl
N/A
Historic
N/A
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
N/A
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
Legal
Pauper Commander
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
N/A
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