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Odyssey rare. New Frontiers is an interestingly narrow card, in that it’s one of the few X-spells that provides mana instead of using it up. Since it provides the opponent first use of the land, it’s never been all that popular, although it’s usually a fairly high pick in Reject Rare Drafts… and it’s ridiculous in Emperor using the “range of influence 1″ option. If the Emperor plays New Frontiers, only his or her allies get search for lands!

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Legends uncommon. The ability “bands with other legends” (which is “bands with other legendary creatures” in the Oracle text) doesn’t do what it sounds like. Instead of just being able to form a band with any other legendary creature, a creature with “bands with other legendary creature” can only band with other creatures that also have “bands with other legendary creature”. Creatures with regular, garden-variety Banding can join in as well, but other legendary creatures without banding or the “bands with other legendary creatures” ability cannot.

Future Sight Uncommon. The bells that are hanging off the Street Wraith’s cloak are in the shape of little skulls, to make it creepier.

Urza’s Saga common. Did you know that there aren’t any cards in Magic with the word “green” in the title that are neither green themselves nor do they have anything to do with green cards? Neither did we until we started this week of Card of the Day cards!

Portal Three Kingdoms uncommon. One of the things that the Grand Creature Type update did was to take away illogical phrases like “CreatureShip” from Magic cards. The Red Cliffs Armada obviously used ships, but the Oracle type line now reflects the actual creatures involved: Human Soldiers.

Ice Age uncommon. Back before Squee made it easy, people who wanted a way to discard cards over and over again (say, to Stormbind had to jump through a few hoops.

Odyssey common. At first glance, the costs attached to Acceptable Losses seem a little high; to get five damage, you have to spend four mana at sorcery speed and discard a card. And like all the other red Odyssey cards with that mechanic, the card gets discarded at random. But the price must be okay. After all, it says right in the card name that the losses are acceptable!