For me, Final Fantasy X was my introduction to the whole genre of RPGs, and Ive become a huge fan of Japanese RPGs ever since
Marcy: Probably one of the more interesting mana dorks, in that you get Energy, not mana, but the trade off is also that you get to buff all your creatures
Each one has a strong questing value that forces opponents to challenge or risk falling behind, and then once challenged and/or banished, their effects activate drawing you cards, forcing opponents to discard or return a character to their hand, and more
We dont have good enough textual traces for a word that emerges out of oral culture to find some kind of truth, but I think these origins point to the two different ways the gaming community, and especially MTG, use the term today