color screw
See also: colorscrew and color-screw
English
Alternative forms
- color-screw, colorscrew, colour screw
Noun
color screw (countable and uncountable, plural color screws)
- (Magic: The Gathering) The condition of having an insufficient supply of the correct color of mana.
- 1995 July 29, Chuck Cochems, “Re: Type I/II and Origins - an observation”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.misc, Usenet:
- But with multis, and other mana sources, you can lessen the odds of a color screw.
- 1997 October 27, Jamie, “My Necro toruney report and tempest small report”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy, Usenet:
- I'm so afraid of color screw, that I have 10 lands that produce both colors of mana and right now, its[sic] really hurting me.
- 2001 July 3, dIMITRI, “Re: Drafting IBC”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy, Usenet:
- Although I agree with you that playing three colours is good, the point of Karl was that he wanted to avoid color screw.
- For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:color screw.
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Hypernyms
- mana screw