Mana Chains
Mana cost
Mana value1TypeEnchantment — Aura
Color identity
Blue
RarityCommon
SetWeatherlight (WTH)
ArtistBryan Talbot
Price€0.16 · $0.28
About this card
Mana Chains is an enchantment card in Magic: The Gathering with mana value 1 (color identity: blue). Printed in Weatherlight (1997). Legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage and Pauper. Cardmarket price: €0.16.
Mana Chains 
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has "Cumulative upkeep
." (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.)
Enchanted creature has "Cumulative upkeep
"The Lord of the Wastes must be destroyed; I am bound to this destiny by the chains of fate. If only Gerrard would see his part." —Sisay, journal
Name in each language
FrançaisChaînes de manaEnglishMana ChainsEspañolCadenas de manáDeutschManakettenItalianoCatene del ManaPortuguêsCorrentes de Mana日本語マナの鎖
Legality
CommanderLegalStandardNot legalPioneerNot legalModernNot legalLegacyLegalVintageLegalPauperLegalBrawlNot legalOathbreakerLegalHistoricNot legalTimelessNot legalPenny DreadfulNot legal
Rulings
2013-04-15
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.