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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[1] (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[2] (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[3] (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.