Odyssey rare. When Otarian Juggernaut was printed, the original Juggernaut hadn’t seen print since Revised???it was on the Reserved List???and had even been banned in Extended at one point. It made sense at the time to create a card that was equivalent to Juggernaut but only under certain conditions. Less than a year after Odyssey came out, however, Wizards revised the Reserved List, removing early base set commons and uncommons from it???Juggernaut included. This paved the way for the original to return in Darksteel, and later to reclaim its place in the core set for Tenth Edition.
Portal Three Kingdoms rare. Like the other legendary creatures of Portal Three Kingdoms, Lady Zhurong, Warrior Queen is based on a character from the semi-historical Romance of the Three Kingdoms. In the story, Lady Zhurong???named for Zhu Rong, a fire god whom she claimed as an ancestor???was the wife of Meng Huo, king of the Nanman tribes of southern China. She was the only woman in the story to participate in combat.
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Champions of Kamigawa uncommon. Kamigawa’s spirits were always depicted surrounded by floating “energy objects,” which took many forms. In Jim Murray’s Teller of Tales, they appeared as fish with hands bearing scrolls???a direction the creative team liked enough to have Murray revisit it in the same set for the art of Eerie Procession. Eerie Procession then served as the inspiration for the Betrayers of Kamigawa Shoals (Shining Shoal, Disrupting Shoal, Sickening Shoal, Blazing Shoal, and Nourishing Shoal). The word “shoal” in this case refers to a school of fish.
Mirage uncommon. Superior Numbers is one of just two cards whose current Oracle wording includes the word “excess”???though other cards, such as Balance of Power, Balance, Restore Balance, and Black Vise???approach the same problem from different perspectives. The other “excess” card, Equipoise, was combined with fellow Visions rare Sands of Time to create a lockdown deck that phased out all of its opponent’s permanents for the rest of the game. Superior Numbers was much more innocent, but it did serve as flavorful creature removal in decks that included a lot of creatures.
Mercadian Masques rare. You might assume that “megatherium,” like “baloth” and “murlodont,” is a made-up, Magic-only word???what former Taste the Magic columnist Matt Cavotta called a “Twinkie”???but you’d be wrong! (You probably saw that coming???it’s not as if anyone ever ends that sentence with “and you’re right!”) Although the art puts a unique Magic spin on it, Megatherium was a real-life genus of massive prehistoric ground sloths that stood twenty feet tall on their hind legs.
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На 19-20 апреля компания “Мир Фэнтези” анонсировала мероприятия, посвященные выходу нового издания “Shadowmoor“. Как это уже было с выходом издания Morningtide (”Рассвет”), событие обещает вылиться в полноценный фестиваль настольных игр (далеко не только Magic: the Gathring). Как и в про�?лый раз, праздник пройдет в просторном ТЦ “Горбу�?кин Двор”, получив�?ем весьма лестные отзывы даже от критически настроенных игроков. �?нформацию о специальных акциях и ожидаемых в рамках фестиваля турнирах по MTG можно найти на форуме mymagic.ru.
Alliances common. Ice Age was designed as the first “stand-alone expansion set”???what today we would call the first set of a block???and one of its themes was the cooperation of allied colors in the face of increasingly harsh conditions. Staple cards such as Disenchant and Stone Rain were reprinted, and other cards in Ice Age and its expansion Alliances recreated famous cards with a twist. Some were variations modified to work with snow lands, such as Pestilence variant Withering Wisps, but others???such as Essence Filter and Kjeldoran Pride???were allied-color-friendly updates of Alpha cards (in this case, Tranquility and Holy Strength).
Eighth Edition uncommon. In Magic slang, a “Wrath effect” is something that destroys all creatures (or has a pretty good go at it???Tenth Edition’s Flowstone Slide, for instance, might be called a Wrath effect). The cards, however, don’t agree. Although Wrath of God and Kirtar’s Wrath are all about destroying all creatures, the other three cards with “Wrath” in their titles???Wrath of Marit Lage, Alliances oddity Nature’s Wrath, and Akroma, Angel of Wrath???are all color hosers, showing their own color’s wrath against its enemy colors.
Legends rare. Greed was the first card that let players repeatably pay life for cards (along with, arguably, Sylvan Library), but it would be far from the last. This particular resource conversion proved to be a popular and powerful angle, spawning The Dark???s Book of Rass and Ice Age dominator Necropotence. The enduring impact of ???Necro??? kept the idea alive, with the Urza’s Destiny?�Yawgmoth???s Bargain and Coldsnap???s?�Phyrexian Etchings as direct homages to “the Skull.”
