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As Magic: The Gathering has progressed, some keywords have been deemed unsuitable for continued use within the game and have been discontinued. While the abilities these keywords represent are still functional within the rules of the game (exceptions: landhome and substance, see below), it has been strongly indicated that they will never appear ...
The Alara block is a Magic: The Gathering expert-level expansion block, consisting of the expansion sets Shards of Alara (October 3, 2008), [1] Conflux (February 6, 2009) [2] and Alara Reborn (April 30, 2009). The Alara block focuses on multicolored cards, in particular cards with three or more colors. [3] [4]
Control-Combo is a control deck with a combo finisher that it can spring quickly if need be. A notable subtype of Control-Combo is "prison," which institutes control through resource denial (usually via a combo). Example cards: Orim's Chant, Mana Drain, Goblin Welder, Oath of Druids, Smokestack; Example decks:
Magic: The Gathering formats are various ways in which the Magic: The Gathering collectible card game can be played. Each format provides rules for deck construction and gameplay, with many confining the pool of permitted cards to those released in a specified group of Magic card sets .
The trading card game Magic: The Gathering has released a large number of sets since it was first published by Wizards of the Coast.After the 1993 release of Limited Edition, also known as Alpha and Beta, roughly 3-4 major sets have been released per year, in addition to various spin-off products.
Magic: The Gathering zones. At any one time, every card is located in one of the following "zones": Library: The portion of the player's deck that is kept face down and is normally in random order (shuffled). [30] Hand: A player's hidden hand of cards that can be played. If a player has more than seven cards in hand at the end of their turn ...
Legends is the first Magic expansion to have cards of three explicit rarities: commons, uncommons, and rares. 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. Seven of the 114 uncommons are U2, and all other 107 uncommons ...
Magic: The Gathering (colloquially known as Magic or MTG) is a tabletop and digital collectible card game created by Richard Garfield. [1] Released in 1993 by Wizards of the Coast , Magic was the first trading card game and had approximately fifty million players as of February 2023 [update] .