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The collectible card game Magic: The Gathering published seven expansion sets from —, and one compilation set. These sets contained new cards that "expanded" on the base sets of Magic with their own mechanical theme and setting; these new cards could be played on their own, or mixed in with decks created from cards in the base sets. With Magic' s runaway success, many of the printings of these early sets were too small to satisfy the rapidly growing fanbase.
Cards from them became rare, hard to find, and expensive. It was not until Fallen Empires and Homelands that Wizards of the Coast was able to print enough cards to meet demand; hobby tron bit bottle, Wizards of the Coast published Hobby tron bit bottlea reprint set that helped fix many of the scarcity issues with the earliest sets. InMagic would adopt a new paradigm: Multiple expansions would all take place hobby tron bit bottle the hobby tron bit bottle setting, and progress a storyline.
This was first seen with Ice Age into Alliancesand evolved into a form that would last for many hobby tron bit bottle in — with MirageVisionsand Weatherlight. Arabian Nights was the first Magic: The Gathering expansion setpublished in The set is composed entirely of new cards. The expansion symbol of Arabian Nights is a scimitar. The setting of Arabian Nights is inspired by the themes and characters of the Thousand and One Arabian Nights with some of the characters and places coming directly from these hobby tron bit bottle.
The Arabian Nights also provides the flavor text for most of the hobby tron bit bottle in the set. Arabian Nights stands out as being one of the only two card sets primarily based on public domain real-world fiction the other being Portal Three Kingdomsas opposed to other card sets based on settings created exclusively for Magic. Richard GarfieldMagic creator, acted as the sole designer for the set, and developed it in parallel with other teams working on what would become Ice Age and Mirage.
The Ice Age design team, composed of Jim Lin, Chris Page, Dave Pettey, and Skaff Eliaswas called upon to become the development team for Arabian Nights as well, but instead of playtesting the set they managed only to submit some comments because their schedule was so tight.
In his article, hobby tron bit bottle Making of Arabian Nights", Garfield cites this as his inspiration to "be more adventurous in creating mechanics and themes".
Player response against the proposed new back caused Wizards of the Coast to stay with the original backs, allowing cards from various sets to be mixed freely in gameplay. To replace the new card back, a symbolic scimitar was added between the card artwork and card text, [9] making the first expansion symbol; every expansion set since has displayed a unique one.
Arabian Nights booster packs contain eight cards, two from the uncommon sheet and six from the common sheet. The set as a whole consists of 78 cards. Of the commons 9 are C5 and 16 are C4. Of the 78 cards, 49 have been reprinted. It is thus the first reprint in Magic outside a base set.
Arabian Nights includes a few minor collation and typographical errors. One of them was the so-called "Arabian Mountain". When the decision was made to have the expansion sets fully playable with the basic set, Wizards of the Coast decided that there was no need to include basic lands in the print run, so they were removed.
However, one Mountain basic land card accidentally remained on the print sheet as a common. Some copies of these cards feature a regular sized generic mana symbol, other copies hobby tron bit bottle one that is smaller and darker. Even when separated from its place as Magic' s first expansion, Arabian Nights was a groundbreaking set in terms of its impact on the game.
In his article "It Happened One Nights", [15] Mark Rosewater detailed amongst others the following innovations or expansions on Alpha mechanics:. Richard Garfield considered several mythologys to build Magic' s first expansion around, but eventually decided to use a real-world mythos. Personally fascinated with the One Thousand and One Nights mythos, and inspired by the recent Sandman comic by Neil GaimanRamadan, [16] he decided that it fit the game well and chose to employ it for Magic.
Arabian Nights is one of the two sets the other Portal: Three Kingdoms to use an explicit earthbound mythos for its background story, [17] although many other sets are inspired or loosely flavored by real-earth cultures e. Antiquities is the second Magic: The Gathering expansion set. It was the first set to have a backstory unique to Magic that explores the mythos of hobby tron bit bottle Magic universe.
The story is primarily about the brothers Urza and Mishra who are inseparable at first, but become sworn enemies over the finding of two power stones. Trying to get hold of the other's stone they eventually lay waste to the whole continent of Terisiare. Mechanically Antiquities revolves around artifacts. Only 35 of the 85 different cards are colored, the remaining 50 cards being artifacts and lands. The expansion symbol for Antiquities was an anvil.
Antiquities hobby tron bit bottle to solve many of the printing errors that had plagued previous sets, although the expansion symbol was missing from the card Reconstructionand the circle around the activation hobby tron bit bottle of Tawnos's Weaponry was omitted in half the printing. The only major problem noticed by players was the poor collation of the set; many booster boxes contained several packs with exactly the same cards in each, making it difficult for players in many parts of the country to collect complete sets.
To correct this, Wizards of the Coast introduced a "buyback" program, allowing players to trade in their excess cards for money. The storyline of Antiquities is originally told through the flavor text of the cards in the set.
In the prequel, "The Thran" by J. Hobby tron bit bottle Kingappeared. It describes the events leading to the Thran-Phyrexian War and the conflict itself. The Thran hobby tron bit bottle the civilization that created the powerstones which are the cause of the separation and ensuing conflict of Hobby tron bit bottle and Mishra.
The story of Antiquities takes hobby tron bit bottle on the plane of Dominaria and centers on the two brothers Urza and Mishra. Urza is born on the first day of the year 0 AR and his brother, Hobby tron bit bottle, on the final day of that year. Ten years later when their father falls ill they are sent as apprentices to their father's friend, the artificer Tocasia. After several years at Tocasia's camp where the brothers made several inventions and discoveries, they explore the Caves of Koilos, a place filled with Thran artifacts.
There the brothers each find one half of a powerstone that sealed the gate to the plane of Phyrexia which is also located in the caves.
Mutual desire for the other's piece of the powerstone eventually leads them to turn the power of their stones onto each other. Attempting to end the duel, Tocasia puts herself into the middle, leading to her inadvertent death.
Afterwards the brothers separate and leave the excavation site. In the following years Urza and Mishra come into positions of substantial power in Yotia and amongst the Fallaji people respectively. After some hostilities the empires eventually conduct open warfare against each other. The events during the conflict lead to both Urza and Mishra acquiring the leadership amongst hobby tron bit bottle people.
The conflict becomes an all-out war, but no side is able to gain the upper hand. In the final battle of the conflict both armies fight to a standstill. The activation of the artifact triggers a blast, that destroys the site of the last battle, the island of Argoth, and thus ends the war by destroying both armies. In the aftermath of the conflict, the blast triggered by the Golgothian Sylex upsets the climate of Dominaria leading to an Ice Age.
Antiquities cards were sold in booster packs that contain eight cards, two from the uncommon sheet and hobby tron bit bottle from the common sheet. Of the cards in Antiquities 29 are U3, meaning that they appear three times on the uncommon print sheet. These are usually dubbed the rares of the set. Also the card Tawnos's Weaponrya U2, exists in two versions, one barely noticeably missing the circle behind the activation cost of the ability. For collector's purposes Tawnos's Weaponry is thus sometimes counted as two U1 cards.
Of the commons 25 are C4. The remaining hobby tron bit bottle are 5 C2 and 11 C1. The C1 commons are usually dubbed as uncommons as a C1 card is exactly as rare as a U3 card. Despite Antiquities design as a set revolving around artifacts, it was largely the lands from the set that had most impact on the game. Legends was the third Magic: The Gathering expansion set, released in June It was the first expansion set to be sold in packs of 15 previous expansions had been sold in packs of 8. The set was designed by Wizards of the Coast co-founder Steve Conard and friend Robin Herbert in Canada before the game was initially released.
These were the first multicolored cards in the game. The expansion symbol for Legends is the capital of a column. Legends hobby tron bit bottle not have the printing errors and misleading artist credits that were in preceding Magic sets. The problem of poor collation persisted, though, which had also troubled Antiquities. Each booster box contained only half of the uncommon cards in the set.
This along with the comparatively small printing made collecting the entire card set very difficult. These two expansions were released in the opposite order in their original English printings. The first set to be released in a foreign language was the Revised Edition which was hobby tron bit bottle only printed in Italian, but also in German and French. The story line of the Legends set was not formulated until the three Legends Cycle books by Clayton Emery were released in and It follows the adventures of Hazezon Tamar who teams up with many other legends from the set such as Jedit Ojanen.
The story takes place in the southern regions of Terisiare well after the Ice Ageand sometime before Weatherlight as the first Airships are built by Johan who tried to conquer the entire continent. Many other legends of the set hobby tron bit bottle up fighting Johan's army at the battle for Efrava. Legends introduce several important mechanics to the game and each pack of cards contained a rules hobby tron bit bottle explaining the new mechanics and keywords.
Legends is the first Magic expansion to have cards of three explicit rarities: There are 75 common cards in Legends. Of these 46 are C2, meaning that they appear two times on the print sheet and are thus twice as common as the other 29 C1 commons.
Of the rares each is R1, making them all equally prevalent. Legends has a reputation for having an erratic power level and not being balanced particularly finely.
