Mana Geyser

The deal

Still sitting around a buck, still doing the same absurd thing it did on release: turn a table full of tapped lands into your own private ritual.

What it does

You tap five mana to cast it, but you get back a red mana for every tapped land your opponents control, which in a four-player pod after everyone's untapped and played a land or two can mean flooding your mana pool with red well past what you spent.

Where it shines

Storm and big-red-spell decks want this, whether that's fueling a wheel-heavy storm plan or the Reiterate buyback line that generates effectively infinite red mana to close the game with something like Crackle with Power.

Plays well with

• Reiterate Cast Mana Geyser, hold priority, copy it with Reiterate's buyback, and you can loop the pair for effectively infinite red mana.
• Jeska's Will Both are mana-doubling-style rituals that fuel the same buyback loop, giving the combo a second way to generate the initial burst of red.
• Crackle with Power The infinite red mana from the Reiterate loop is exactly what you need to X-spell the table with a maximally kicked Crackle with Power.

The catch

It's dead or nearly dead if you cast it early before opponents have tapped out, and in a stax or slow pod where lands stay untapped, you can spend five mana to get back three or four.

Featured in

GUIDE Neheb, the Eternal Commander Guide: Infinite Mana, Zero Mercy See where Mana Geyser ranks in our The 25 Best Cards from Secrets of Strixhaven.