Mana acceleration

Mana acceleration is Magic: The Gathering jargon for the concept of accelerating one's mana base, thereby enabling one to gain as much mana as quickly as possible, often in order to play a Finisher. By using mana acceleration, players tend to exchange their card advantage to gain tempo.

Mana accelerators are cards that produce more mana during a turn than the mana used to cast them, thus allowing for mana acceleration.

Without mana acceleration combo decks suffer immensely.