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Alliances uncommon. Inheritance is on the short list of ways to draw two or more cards using only white mana. Armistice, Convalescent Care, and Pursuit of Knowledge all qualify, as does Planar Chaos “timeshifted” card Mesa Enchantress. Martyr’s Cry, Oblation, Spiritual Focus, and Temporary Truce also make the list, though their card draw is more conditional. The latest way to draw cards using white mana? Shadowmoor’s Augury Adept.
Ice Age uncommon. Goblin Mutant, in addition to being a relatively straightforward variant on the equally beloved and maligned Orgg, is one of only 42 cards whose name is the same as its updated creature types in Oracle. Most of these are either simple names that later became generalized as creature types (such as Scarecrow and Phelddagrif) or names that consist of only creature-type words (such as Lizard Warrior or Fungus Elemental), which generally receive all of those types in Oracle (but not if it those words are being used in a different senseRogue Elephant and Giant Spider need not apply).
Planar Chaos common. Charms in Magic, going back to the Visions originals, each offer one of three options. Each of the five Planar Chaos charms has one effect very familiar from its color’s slice of the pie (searching for land is a quintessentially green ability), one effect that the color dabbles in less frequently (graveyard recursion is an occasional highlight of green), and one effect from the color’s slice of the alternate-universe Planar Chaos pie (flying hasnt been greens bailiwick since the days of Scryb Sprites).
Lorwyn common. Tideshaper Mystic’s purpose was to provide a good Merfolk one-drop that could feed into “tapping matters” effects, subtly fix mana, and of course enable the major Lorwyn Merfolk theme of islandwalk (as well as the many other landwalk abilities in the set). Its purpose emphatically wasn’t color-screwing your opponent, which could easily prove un-fun on a one-drop (we’re looking at you, Tidal Warrior and Reef Shaman). The “only during your turn” clause was added so that you can’t shut off your opponent’s colors during their turn.
Future Sight uncommon. From the very beginning, the concept of balance has been a big part of white’s flavor, from “destroy all” cards such as Wrath of God and Armageddon to explicitly underdog-friendly rebalancing acts such as Land Tax and, um, Balance. The concept of just retribution was tied to white at an early stage as well on cards such as Eye for an Eye and Reverse Polarity. Even the Odds combines the mechanics of a balancing spell with some of the flavor of a retribution spell, showing three new ghost-soldiers rising from the corpse of a fallen comrade.
Invasion rare. Well before the cycle of rare Invasion creatures that made spells of their own color more expensive, there were leeches in Magic. Even putting aside all the uses of “leech” as a verb in card titles such as Powerleech and Leeching Licid, there were Land Leeches, Mana Leeches, and, of course, plain old Leeches (and, later, Blessing of Leeches). Shadowmoor adds two new cards to that list: Leech Bonder and Leechridden Swamp.
Ice Age common. As the first “stand-alone expansion set”what we would call a big set todayIce Age was the first set to explore the problem of hitting all of the staple cards that people expected to be in a Magic play environment. In addition to straight reprints of iconic instants and sorceries (such as Disenchant and Stone Rain) and “tweaked” reprints of old favorites (such as Norritt, based on Nettling Imp, and Essence Filter, based on Tranquility), Ice Age also made use of “functional reprints” such as Moor Fiend (functionally identical to Bog Wraith) and Fyndhorn Elves (functionally identical to Llanowar Elves).
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