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Korlash, Heir to Blackblade
– Future Sight rare. Most of our wallpapers are based on cards’ regular art. But when we did wallpaper based on Korlash, we used the alternate Prerelease card art.
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Infernal Spawn of Infernal Spawn of Evil
– Unhinged rare. The original Infernal Spawn of Evil in Unglued had the creature type “Demon” crossed out and “Beast” added in, a reference to Magic’s policy at the time against having demons. By the time Unhinged came out, that policy was history, so the Infernal Spawn’s Infernal Spawn had “Beast” replaced by “Demon”.
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Sarpadian Empires, Vol. VII
– Time Spiral rare. The first six volumes of Sarpadian Empires are told via the flavor text in Fallen Empires. For a complete compilation of the story, check out this Arcana!
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Sachi, Daughter of Seshiro
– Champions of Kamigawa uncommon. The introduction of Snakes as a playable tribe (as opposed to just an unrelated group of creatures) meant that for the first time, players could look forward to drafting an entire family. In 2005 GP Leipzig, Niki Jedlicka successfully drafted Seshiro the Anointed, along with two Sachi, Daughter of Seshiro and Sosuke, Son of Seshiro for the full Snake set!
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Grand Arbiter Augustin IV
– Dissension rare. Although Grand Arbiter Augustin IV is presumably the fourth Augustin, he was only the second Arbiter in Magic. The first one was Silent Arbiter in Dissension. Thanks to Arbiter of Knollridge and Angelic Arbiter, there are now four Arbiters. Augustin was just ahead of his time.
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Timber Wolves
– Alpha rare. Rare? Yeah, it has banding. Oh. Can you explain banding without looking at Gatherer? Probably not, but then I’m guessing you can’t explain a 4-Out 1-In Motion Offense either ….
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North Star
– Legends rare. You might have forgotten about this mana-filtering artifact, since it was released in 1994. Or was it 1993? With North Star you can cast that Progenitus, Coalition Victory, or Sliver Queen with mana of any color. Just remember you’ll have to pay that extra four colorless to activate it.
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Splinter Twin
– Rise of the Eldrazi rare. Splinter Twin features a single human female that creates, and I quote the art description here, “her wild-eyed double.” With Doubling Season in play, you’d triple her.
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Lake of the Dead
– Alliances rare. It’s simple math: Play Lake of the Dead, sacrifice two Swamps, net gain two black mana that turn. Is it good math? I don’t know. Just hope no one annexes this land from you after all that.
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Tooth and Nail
– Mirrodin rare. They say you should never play an extremely expensive spell unless it’s going to win you the game. That’s usually what Tooth and Nail does, so even though it’s a seven-mana sorcery, it has a long and distinguished history of dominating tournament play.
