Portal Second Age common. The Portal sets???the original Portal in particular???are much-maligned for their attempts to make the game easier to learn. While the dagger and shield symbols next to power and toughness didn’t stick, and the substitution of the word “intercept” for “block” was confusing at best, there was one important innovation in Portal that’s often overlooked: Portal creatures, in 1997, were the first to feature the word “Creature” on their type line, and Portal Second Age, in 1998, used “Creature ??? [type]” technology nearly a full year before it was introduced to the wider Magic world in Sixth Edition.
