Manaburn in Magic: The Gathering

Video Transcript

"Hi this is Mike Lopez with Expert Village. Today we're going to be discussing Magic: the Gathering the card game. We are still doing, what is a mana essential thing. We are now going to go over what happens when you have too much mana in your mana pool. This is our hand and this is already on the table. You are going to tap this to put a swamp into your mana pool and you're going to play the Dark Ritual again. Which again, only costs one, and it gives you 3 swamps or black mana into your mana pool. Then you are going to play this card. Notice that this card only costs one colorless and one skull. It only costs you two from your mana pool to play this; one colorless, which you are going to use a swamp for and one specific swamp which you are going to use a swamp for. Now, see, that still leaves another swamp in your mana pool. At this point, if you do not have another card to play or another ability to trigger that costs specifically one mana, at the end of your turn you're going to take what is called mana burn. Mana burn happens any time you have more mana in your mana pool then you used. It's as we had here, we played one, to play the Dark Ritual, which gave us 3 in our mana pool but we only used 2 of those 3 to play this card. This means there's one mana still left in your mana pool. If you can't play an ability or another card from your hand, at the end of your turn you're going to take 1 point of damage for that mana that is in your mana pool."