Mana Chains
- Mana cost
- {U}
- Type
- Enchantment — Aura
- Set
- Weatherlight #41 (common)
- Price
- $0.28 USD
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has "Cumulative upkeep {1}." (At the beginning of its controller's upkeep, that player puts an age counter on it, then sacrifices it unless they pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)
Mana Chains has 1 printing, first in Weatherlight (1997). EDHREC ranks it #23,627 among Commander cards. It appears most in Chisei, Heart of Oceans decks (35 on EDHREC). It has 1 official ruling.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: legal
- modern: not legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: not legal
Commanders that run Mana Chains most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Chisei, Heart of Oceans: 35 decks
- Ruric Thar, Biomagus: 11 decks
- Iceman and Firestar
Often played with Mana Chains
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : If a permanent has multiple instances of cumulative upkeep, each triggers separately. However, the age counters are not connected to any particular ability; each cumulative upkeep ability will count the total number of age counters on the permanent at the time that ability resolves.