1997 November 16, Roger Wink, “Re: Tournament Shuffling”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.misc[1] (Usenet):
This will tend to break up the clumps without drawing attention to yourself with the mana weave.
2000 December 7, James Lyvers, “Re: R: Shuffeling?”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.rules[2] (Usenet):
As a result I find the mana weave to be a fair means of randomizing a deck provided it is done face down, and followed by 1 or 2 riffle shuffles.
2002 March 9, Simon White, “Re: Doing the Shuffle”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.misc[3] (Usenet):
If you are using a sufficently[sic] uncertain (I'm not going to say random)method of shuffling your deck, then the mana weave should make no differance[sic] to the final state of the deck before game play.
Verb: "(Magic: The Gathering) to stack one's deck to ensure even distribution of land cards"[edit]
1996 July 16, Michael Bahr, “Re: Card Sleeves: what's the big deal?”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy[4] (Usenet):
Those of you in the east Phoenix area who went to the Derelor tourney in June remember the one guy who blew up because the other guy had mana-weaved his deck and overhand-shuffled with sleeves, and the weave stayed.
1997 June 19, James Darby, “Re: A Little Survey: Cheating”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.misc[5] (Usenet):
I played against a guy yesterday who mana wove in CASUAL games.
1998 July 14, Eric Taylor, “Re: Mike Long = Cheating Bastard”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy[6] (Usenet):
Yet. . . What happens if you catch someone mana weaving their lands?
1998 July 16, Chen, “Re: Mike Long = Cheating Bastard”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy[7] (Usenet):
if you mana weave, you're reducing the chance of clumps.
2001 June 30, Michael Falkner, “High Profile DQ's Running Amok in National/Continent Tournaments...”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.misc[8] (Usenet):
The deck was mana-weaved, and, therefore, in addition to the non-shuffled, declared stacked.
2002 February 28, Brian Wawok, “Re: Doing the Shuffle”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.misc[9] (Usenet):
My general strategy is 2 riffle shiffles,[sic]mana weave, then 4 more riffle strategies.[sic] Gives me fairly consistant[sic] mana, though the mana weaving makes some people mad.
2002 March 1, Steve Lord, “Re: Doing the Shuffle”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.misc[10] (Usenet):
If you mana-weaved your deck and told me that you expected more favorable distributions of land and spells afterwards, I'd call the judge.
2004 September 11, Graham Ribchester, “Re: Poker [was: #mtguk]”, in uk.games.trading-cards.misc[11] (Usenet):
Now however if you mana weaved your deck and I three piled it, then yes I can see how you would be bitter, maybe it was you doing the cheating hmmm?