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)

1. (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 quotations using this term, see Citations:color screw.

Hypernyms

• mana screw