Mana Land Mix Calculator
How to work out the mana you need for your deck! All formats catered for, never be mana screwed again.
News
04/Feb/2022
- Fixed calculator
19/Sept/2018
- Made page more mobile friendly - More to come
08/Feb/2015
- Added colourless (errata) into the calculator.
- Using temporary icon for colourless/errata
- Changed title of webpage from "Mana Mix Calculator" to "Mana Land Mix Calculator"
How to use
- Count the amount of mana symbols of each of your cards in your deck.
- Enter the total amount of mana cards you're wanting to have in your deck. Use the mana requirement table below for guidance.
- The calculation rounds up, so in some occasions it may generate one mana more than required. Use dual lands to compensate.
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Total Mana Requirement Guidelines
Key: CC = Casting Cost
| Land | Strategy | Mana Curve |
| 17 | 40 card Pre-Release / Draft | N/A |
| <20 | Very aggressive beatdown | Almost exclusively 0-2cc |
| 20 | Aggressive beatdown | 32 or more spells of 0-2cc; 8 spells 3cc or higher |
| 22 | Beatdown deck with utility | 20-28 spells of 0-2cc; Aggro-control 10-18 spells 3cc or higher |
| 24 | Generic deck | Deck w/ light 10-20 spells of 0-2cc; control or light beatdown 16-26 spells of 3cc or higher, |
| 26 | Control deck | Combo deck Varies, usually some high-cc spells |
| 28 | Heavy control-oriented deck | Varies, usually some high-cc Light"Land-deck" spells |
| 30+ | "Land-deck" | Usually ridiculously high |
| 36-40 | EDH/Commander | Depends if deck contains mana ramp cards (i.e. sol ring) |