The Unhinged set had a theme regarding artwork and their illustrators, and to play on that theme the cards Blast from the Past and Old Fogey have Douglas Shuler's name misspelled "Schuler" just as it was originally erroneously spelled on his Alpha/Beta/Unlimited cards.
Time Spiral block is full of this sort of thing. I don't know why there's yet another homage in Conflux though. Ætherling is a more recent example, but not the same CMC, or P/T.
No one's mentioned Nevinyrral's Disk is science fiction author Larry Niven's name backwards, he was a friend of Richard Garfield.
Also, Red Elemental Blast was misprinted as an instant, not an interrupt in Alpha. Interestingly,with the removal of interrupts, it's also the only version of an elemental blast with the correct card type now.
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EDH: Grand Arbiter $tax, Freyalise Stompy, Mimeoplasm Death From the Grave
There are cards at all CMCs up to 16 except for 13. The only card with CMC higher than 16 is Gleemax. At CMC 16, there's only Draco. The only CMC fourteen card is Blinkmoth Infusion. There are 4 CMC 15 cards, 2 of which are from Unsets. There are several cards of every CMC 12 or lower.
The Portuguese version of Stoic Rebuttal literally does nothing. It has Metalcraft to make is cost 1 less, but no other effects on the card.
Similarly, the spanish version of jackal familiar simply reads "can't attack or block," rather than "can't attack or block alone." Bet there were some confused spanish-speaking players at prereleases that year!
No one's mentioned Nevinyrral's Disk is science fiction author Larry Niven's name backwards, he was a friend of Richard Garfield.
Also, Red Elemental Blast was misprinted as an instant, not an interrupt in Alpha. Interestingly,with the removal of interrupts, it's also the only version of an elemental blast with the correct card type now.
Yes which makes the flavour text for Magus of the Disk make more sense.
Formerly, the rules of magic allowed you to play Lion's eye diamond, announce a spell (ie Necropotence), then sacrifice LED and discard your hand to pay for it.
Its rules text have been changed to say "activate this ability only at instant speed" which actually makes it balanced given the current rules, meaning you can't use its ability during the steps of casting a spell like you could with other mana abilities like you could previously with LED.
Many know the fact that Arabian Nights almost had a different card back. But who helped convince Richard Garfield that was a bad idea?
My teacher, and omega game maker/enthusiast Alan Emrich helped save Magic! I have learned so much from Alan, who has been a mentor and friend for five years now. He is an old friend to Richard Garfield. Without him giving his advice, the game we cherish so much, Magic, may not have happened.
If anyone is ever in Orange County, California, USA, look up his game company Victory Point Games and pick up one of their games (just to make it clear, this is not a plug for VPG, just pointing them out for all the other game enthusiasts).
Fact #1:
The art for Guardian Angel and Paralyze are actually two parts of the same piece.
These are separate pieces on separate canvasses and the artist claimed that it was coincidental. I have attached an image of the original Paralyze artwork.
No one's mentioned Nevinyrral's Disk is science fiction author Larry Niven's name backwards, he was a friend of Richard Garfield.
They weren't friends at the time; it was an homage. Garfield said that Niven's views on magic were fundamental to his inspiration for the game and he took the term "mana" from Niven's Warlock series of books. (Which in turn took it from Polynesian mythology).
In Larry Niven's story "Not Long Before the End", a magic disc spins faster and faster consuming all of the mana in the world.
Many know the fact that Arabian Nights almost had a different card back. But who helped convince Richard Garfield that was a bad idea?
My teacher, and omega game maker/enthusiast Alan Emrich helped save Magic!
According to MaRo, it was Skaff Elias who convinced him not to do it. He says so here at 2:05 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ADEnV_XCcA
And again in Drive to Work #63 "The Year 1993".
I'll post a few new ones from A Collector's History of Magic the Gathering:
The WotC office was Peter Adkison's basement until February 1994.
Mox is short for "Moxie" which means "energy".
Kormus is pronounced "Kor-moo" and was a villain in Garfield's Call of Cthulhu Campaign.
The Black Lotus is taken from the Conan the Barbarian stories where it is a hallucinogen.
Antiquities was released in Europe 2 weeks before it was released in the US.
Antiquities had the playtest name "Cybermagic".
Over 200,000 Antiquities cards were returned to WotC due to excess duplication and were destroyed.
In 1994, a game shop was broken into in the middle of the night and their entire MTG shipment was taken, but a full cash payment for it was left on the register.
Fallen Empires was Richard Garfield's favorite expansion at the time of its release.
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Every English card ever printed: 99.02%
Arabian Nights through Lorwyn: Complete
Alpha: 94.2% Beta: 95.0%
Unlimited through M10: Complete
Tibalt may be the worst card in Magic. There's a fun fact.
Oh, there are cards that are objectively less powerful, sure. Wood Elemental is hilariously bad. The Mountain Stronghold cycle is terrible. But most of the counter-examples you can raise came from times when no one knew how to make a Magic card, and they at least had unique effects, albeit uniquely terrible.
But Tibalt? They knew better, and so did we, but people got snookered into paying money for this turd anyway. Seriously, if you wanted to pay RR to start drawing and discarding cards at random -- which is all Tibalt does initially, remember -- the same block produced two far superior cards in the same block: Desperate Ravings and Faithless Looting. He was useless for all purposes. And yet, because he was a Planeswalker, everyone reserved judgment. Everyone kept the gloves off. And people lost money buying what is now the only Planeswalker you can get for less than a buck.
Screw you, Tibalt. You're made of moose poop.
Everytime someone brings up Tibalt I feel the need to reply with Defensive Stance. Also a recent card, but at least Tybalt can be fun for a casual deck (And was plenty playable in limited).
While Defensive Stance was rather underwhelming, I'd say it was better than Tybalt in its respective limited environment. Siding it in against Infect was usually pretty decent since it answered early Blighted Agents or Plague Stingers in blue. It also had some decent utility against Tangle Angler.
So we get the enemy colored painlands and not the allied color ones? Well that's reverse of the norm, but I thought Wizards was planning to do full 10 land cycles from now on.
Enemy pains could indicate allied Fetches in the next set, to offset the colour imbalance. It would also make sense since it would allow Modern to have access to all 10 Fetches as opposed to only 5.
Or you could read the article, and now that's not true.
While Defensive Stance was rather underwhelming, I'd say it was better than Tybalt in its respective limited environment. Siding it in against Infect was usually pretty decent since it answered early Blighted Agents or Plague Stingers in blue. It also had some decent utility against Tangle Angler.
Tibalt is in fact "playable" if you can use its effect, be it for madness / flashback or just because it can deal damage as it is ; its not unplayable.
Sure people thought "2 mana planeswalker, Hype" ,but he still does a job if the deck can support him, while he is not a crazy broken card (and face it, most planeswalkers are just stupid strong in limited).
Defensive Stance however, that was ALLWAYS unplayable bad. Its never good to play, its just horrible and spending 1 card for it is just plain bad, no matter what.
Especially against infect, the deck had like 1 million pump spells, which actual killed you, rather than the 1 point pings (XG +X/+X thats the kind of card that kills you).
Defensive Stance is the kind of card that easily could get a cantrip on it, and even then, it would not be great ; but at least playable as a filler for its cantrip alone.
Fun Fact: You've never had an optimal Magic experience until you've drafted a cube naked with a beautiful twenty year old woman.
Trust me...Once you've had this incredible experience, you realize instantly that every previous game you've ever played was sub-par.
Anyhow, the best I can come up with myself is a game in the top 8 of a PTQ back during Urza block in which we were starting game 3 with time already expired, so the tiebreaker rule was that whoever had more life after 3 turns would win. And I lost to... healing salve.
Karn Liberated costs 7 mana partially in honor of his creator, Urza, who's cycle of lands produces 7 mana altogether. The same reference is made with Urza's Factory.
So far 57 if Future Sight's prophecies have come true (including non-Standard legal sets). For a set with 180 cards (not including basic lands) that's 0.316 batting average.
More unique cards in magic begin with the letter S than any other letter with 1993 cards. The next most common is C with 1000 cards. The least common is X with only 14 cards, even the grapheme ash "AE" is more common having 28 cards. (Excluding the unsets)
[edit]: Updated to reflect the whole history of the game.
There are also:
Phelddagrif, named after Richard Garfield.
Wyluli Wolf, named after Richard Garfield's wife.
Torchling
Thornling
Time Spiral block is full of this sort of thing. I don't know why there's yet another homage in Conflux though. Ætherling is a more recent example, but not the same CMC, or P/T.
Also, Red Elemental Blast was misprinted as an instant, not an interrupt in Alpha. Interestingly,with the removal of interrupts, it's also the only version of an elemental blast with the correct card type now.
EDH: Grand Arbiter $tax, Freyalise Stompy, Mimeoplasm Death From the Grave
Right, added it.
There are cards at all CMCs up to 16 except for 13. The only card with CMC higher than 16 is Gleemax. At CMC 16, there's only Draco. The only CMC fourteen card is Blinkmoth Infusion. There are 4 CMC 15 cards, 2 of which are from Unsets. There are several cards of every CMC 12 or lower.
Similarly, the spanish version of jackal familiar simply reads "can't attack or block," rather than "can't attack or block alone." Bet there were some confused spanish-speaking players at prereleases that year!
Link here - http://magiccards.info/m10/es/143.html
375 unpowered cube - https://cubecobra.com/cube/list/601ac624832cdf1039947588
Portuguese Stoic Rebuttals don't actually counter anything.
AAAH man reading is hard.
Yes which makes the flavour text for Magus of the Disk make more sense.
Its rules text have been changed to say "activate this ability only at instant speed" which actually makes it balanced given the current rules, meaning you can't use its ability during the steps of casting a spell like you could with other mana abilities like you could previously with LED.
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Legacy ANT Primer
L1 Judge
Oh dang, kinda sad to find out that her partner/mentor died.
Legacy: Death and Taxes, U/B Reanimator
My teacher, and omega game maker/enthusiast Alan Emrich helped save Magic! I have learned so much from Alan, who has been a mentor and friend for five years now. He is an old friend to Richard Garfield. Without him giving his advice, the game we cherish so much, Magic, may not have happened.
If anyone is ever in Orange County, California, USA, look up his game company Victory Point Games and pick up one of their games (just to make it clear, this is not a plug for VPG, just pointing them out for all the other game enthusiasts).
These are separate pieces on separate canvasses and the artist claimed that it was coincidental. I have attached an image of the original Paralyze artwork.
They weren't friends at the time; it was an homage. Garfield said that Niven's views on magic were fundamental to his inspiration for the game and he took the term "mana" from Niven's Warlock series of books. (Which in turn took it from Polynesian mythology).
In Larry Niven's story "Not Long Before the End", a magic disc spins faster and faster consuming all of the mana in the world.
According to MaRo, it was Skaff Elias who convinced him not to do it. He says so here at 2:05 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ADEnV_XCcA
And again in Drive to Work #63 "The Year 1993".
I'll post a few new ones from A Collector's History of Magic the Gathering:
The WotC office was Peter Adkison's basement until February 1994.
Mox is short for "Moxie" which means "energy".
Kormus is pronounced "Kor-moo" and was a villain in Garfield's Call of Cthulhu Campaign.
The Black Lotus is taken from the Conan the Barbarian stories where it is a hallucinogen.
Antiquities was released in Europe 2 weeks before it was released in the US.
Antiquities had the playtest name "Cybermagic".
Over 200,000 Antiquities cards were returned to WotC due to excess duplication and were destroyed.
In 1994, a game shop was broken into in the middle of the night and their entire MTG shipment was taken, but a full cash payment for it was left on the register.
Fallen Empires was Richard Garfield's favorite expansion at the time of its release.
Every English card ever printed: 99.02%
Arabian Nights through Lorwyn: Complete
Alpha: 94.2% Beta: 95.0%
Unlimited through M10: Complete
Do you mean, "the first changeling?
The Great Creature Token Project
No, Changeling is a keyword ability that Mistform Ultimus doesn't have. Eldrazi is a creature type that Mistform Ultimus does have.
Oh... Ok... Clearly.
Tibalt is in fact "playable" if you can use its effect, be it for madness / flashback or just because it can deal damage as it is ; its not unplayable.
Sure people thought "2 mana planeswalker, Hype" ,but he still does a job if the deck can support him, while he is not a crazy broken card (and face it, most planeswalkers are just stupid strong in limited).
Defensive Stance however, that was ALLWAYS unplayable bad. Its never good to play, its just horrible and spending 1 card for it is just plain bad, no matter what.
Especially against infect, the deck had like 1 million pump spells, which actual killed you, rather than the 1 point pings (XG +X/+X thats the kind of card that kills you).
Defensive Stance is the kind of card that easily could get a cantrip on it, and even then, it would not be great ; but at least playable as a filler for its cantrip alone.
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Jalira, Master Polymorphist | Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder | Bosh, Iron Golem | Ezuri, Renegade Leader
Brago, King Eternal | Oona, Queen of the Fae | Wort, Boggart Auntie | Wort, the Raidmother
Captain Sisay | Rhys, the Redeemed | Trostani, Selesnya's Voice | Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
Gisela, Blade of Goldnight | Obzedat, Ghost Council | Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind | Vorel of the Hull Clade
Uril, the Miststalker | Prossh, Skyraider of Kher | Nicol Bolas | Progenitus
Ghave, Guru of Spores | Zedruu the Greathearted | Damia, Sage of Stone | Riku of Two Reflections
As for fun facts City of Brass was the first land that tapped for all colors.
Also funny that the actual flavour text in Oxidize quotes a Viridian Shaman, which are both artifact killers.
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Trust me...Once you've had this incredible experience, you realize instantly that every previous game you've ever played was sub-par.
JUUUDGE!
Seems nice anyway though, I suspect the focus wasn't on the playing
Karn Liberated costs 7 mana partially in honor of his creator, Urza, who's cycle of lands produces 7 mana altogether. The same reference is made with Urza's Factory.
So far 57 if Future Sight's prophecies have come true (including non-Standard legal sets). For a set with 180 cards (not including basic lands) that's 0.316 batting average.
[edit]: Updated to reflect the whole history of the game.