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Black is the color of objects that do not emit or reflect light in any part of the visible spectrum; they absorb all such frequencies of light. Although black is sometimes described as an "achromatic", or hueless, color, in practice it can be...
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Blue is a colour, the perception of which is evoked by light having a spectrum dominated by energy with a wavelength of roughly 440–490 nm. It is considered one of the additive primary colours. On the HSV Colour Wheel, the complement of blue is...
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A fungus (pronounced /ˈfʌŋɡəs/) is a member of a large group of eukaryotic organisms that includes microorganisms such as yeasts and molds, as well as the more familiar mushrooms. The Fungi (pronounced /ˈfʌndʒaɪ/ or /ˈfʌŋɡaɪ/) are classified as a...
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Green is a color, the perception of which is evoked by light having a spectrum dominated by energy with a wavelength of roughly 520–570 nanometres. In the subtractive color system, it is not a primary color, but is created out of a mixture of yellow...
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Magic: The Gathering (colloquially "Magic" or "MTG") is a collectible card game created by mathematics professor Richard Garfield and introduced in 1993 by Wizards of the Coast. Magic is the first example of the modern collectible card game genre...
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Plants are living organisms belonging to the kingdom Plantae. They include familiar organisms such as trees, herbs, bushes, grasses, vines, ferns, mosses, and green algae. About 350,000 species of plants, defined as seed plants, bryophytes, ferns...
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Red is any of a number of similar colors evoked by light consisting predominantly of the longest wavelengths of light discernible by the human eye, in the wavelength range of roughly 630–740 nm. Longer wavelengths than this are called infrared ...
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White is a color, the perception which is evoked by light that stimulates all three types of color sensitive cone cells in the human eye in nearly equal amounts and with high brightness compared to the surroundings. A white visual stimulation will...
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The term worm (vermes) refers to an obsolete taxon used by Carolus Linnaeus and Jean-Baptiste Lamarck for all non-arthropod invertebrate animals. Currently it is used to describe many different distantly-related animals which have a long cylindrical...
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A zombie is a creature that appears in books and popular culture typically as a reanimated dead or a mindless human being. Stories of zombies originated in the Afro-Caribbean spiritual belief system of Vodou, which told of the people being...
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A soldier is a member of the land component of national armed forces; whereas a soldier hired for service in a foreign army would be termed a mercenary. In most languages, "soldier" includes commissioned and non-commissioned officers in national...
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Orc (pronounced /ˈɔrk/) is a word used to refer to various races of tough and warlike humanoid creatures in various fantasy settings. Orcs are often portrayed as misshapen humanoids who are brutal, warmongering, and sadistic. Conversely, some...
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| Druid |
In role-playing games, a druid is a character class that is generally portrayed as using nature-based magical abilities who strive to protect nature from civilized intrusion. Most druids have abilities that involve healing, damaging spells, and...
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In J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, Elves are one of the races that inhabit the lands of Arda. They appear in The Hobbit and in The Lord of the Rings, but their complex history is described in more fully in The Silmarillion, edited and published...
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A warrior is a person experienced in or capable of engaging in combat or warfare, especially within the context of a tribal or clan-based society that recognizes a separate warrior class. According to the Random House Dictionary, the term warrior...
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| Artifact |
In role-playing games and fantasy literature, an artifact is a magical object with great power. Often, this power is so great that it cannot be duplicated by any known art allowed by the premises of the fantasy world, and often cannot be destroyed...
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| Champions of Kamigawa |
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Champions of Kamigawa (Champions or CoK) is the name of the Magic: The Gathering expansion set released October 1, 2004. The first set of the Kamigawa block, it set the stage for the block's story, which was inspired by Japanese myths and revolves...
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| Vigilance |
Vigilance is the act of watching for something to happen, of watching for danger. It is not something that humans are very good at, since it is difficult to maintain attention for very long without some stimulus. A security guard is just one of many...
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| Mirrodin |
Mirrodin was the 50th Magic: The Gathering set, the 30th expert level set, and the first set in the Mirrodin Block, released in October 2003. It is a 306-card expansion set. It is also the name of the block containing the Mirrodin, Darksteel and...
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| Unglued |
For the Stone Temple Pilots song, please see Unglued (song).
Unglued is the name of a Magic: The Gathering expansion set, the first silver-bordered, non-tournament-legal Magic: The Gathering expansion set released. It came out in August 1998. Its...
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| Fifth Dawn |
Fifth Dawn is a Magic: The Gathering expansion set that came out in May 2004. It is the third and final set of the Mirrodin block. There are 165 cards overall, and like the rest of Mirrodin, an unusually large number of them are artifacts. However,...
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| Odyssey |
Odyssey is the 24th Magic:The Gathering expert-level expansion set. Released in September, 2001, Odyssey is the first set in the Odyssey Block. Its expansion symbol is a small image of the Mirari (see storyline).
The storyline of Odyssey leaps...
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| Rebecca Guay | Rebecca Guay-Mitchell |
Rebecca Guay is an artist specializing in watercolor painting and illustration. She is mostly known for her work commissioned by Magic: The Gathering, White Wolf, and DC Vertigo comics, though she has also done work for World of Warcraft TCG, the...
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| Alpha |
Limited Edition Alpha, or just Alpha for short, was the first Magic: The Gathering card set. It premiered in a limited release at Origins Game Fair in 1993, with a general release that August. Its print run of 2.6 million cards sold out very quickly...
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| Harold Arthur McNeill |
Harold Arthur McNeill is an American artist and industrial musician. In the visual medium, he has produced paintings, sculptures, photography, and design.
His work has appeared in role-playing games such as Magic: The Gathering, Vampire: The...
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| John Avon |
John Avon (born 1961) is an illustrator who does work on book covers, games and other media formats. His most famous works are perhaps the artworks he does for the collectible card game Magic: The Gathering, of which he has produced over 200...
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| Saviors of Kamigawa |
Saviors of Kamigawa (also Saviors or SoK) is a Magic: The Gathering set, third and last in the Kamigawa block. Saviors of Kamigawa was released on June 3, 2005 (prerelease on May 21, 2005). Its expansion symbol is a Japanese lantern.
Saviors of...
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| Ron Spencer |
Ron Spencer is an illustrator whose most famous work has been for the collectible card game Magic: The Gathering.
His trademark on a vast majority of his earlier trading cards is a hidden name somewhere in the artwork. For example the name DALE can...
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| Darksteel |
Darksteel is an expansion set for the game Magic: The Gathering, the second in the Mirrodin block of sets that also features Mirrodin and Fifth Dawn. It was released in February 2004, containing 165 cards. Darksteel continued the themes established...
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| Beta | Limited Edition Beta |
Limited Edition Beta or just Beta for short was the second part, after revisions, of the first print run of the first Magic: The Gathering set. It was released only a few months after Limited Edition Alpha's publication to correct some minor...
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| Unlimited |
Unlimited Edition was the second Magic: The Gathering set. It was printed after Beta had sold out as quickly as Alpha had; this time the run was 40 million cards, the largest yet. It contains the same cards as Beta, though with white borders instead...
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| Arabian Nights |
Arabian Nights was the fourth Magic: The Gathering set and the first expert level expansion set, featuring completely new cards. Ali Baba, djinns, deserts, and King Suleiman joined the Magic world on the plane of Rabiah with cards inspired by the...
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| Legends |
Legends was the seventh Magic: The Gathering set and the third expansion set, released in June 1994. It was the first expansion set to be sold in packs of 15 (previous expansions had been sold in packs of 8). The set, like Antiquities, was created...
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| Fallen Empires |
Fallen Empires was the ninth Magic: The Gathering set and the fifth expansion set, released in November 1994. Out of the set of 187 cards, 102 were functionally unique, with the remainder being variant illustrations of other cards in the set. The...
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| The Dark |
The Dark was the eighth Magic: The Gathering set and the fourth expansion set, released in August 1994. The set continued the story begun in Antiquities and recounted the aftermath of the events of that set. The 119-card set had a dark, sacrificial...
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| Chronicles | Renaissance |
Chronicles was the twelfth Magic: The Gathering set, and the first compilation set, released in July 1995 by Wizards of the Coast. The set is one of two sets that have been sold in twelve-card booster packs, the other having been Alliances....
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| Ice Age |
Ice Age is the eleventh Magic: The Gathering set and the sixth expansion set, released in June 1995. Set in the years from 450 to 2934 AR, the set describes a world set in perpetual winter due to the events in Antiquities. Of the 383 cards in the...
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| Homelands |
Homelands was the thirteenth Magic: The Gathering set and seventh expert level set, released in October 1995. It was considered to be part of the Ice Age block until the announcement of Coldsnap in October 2005.
The set takes place in a plane known...
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| Alliances |
Alliances is the fourteenth Magic: The Gathering set and eighth expansion set, released on 10 June 1996. It was released 8 months after Homelands, which is the longest gap between expansion sets in the history of the game. It is now the middle set...
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| Revised |
The Revised Edition of Magic: The Gathering (also simply known as Revised) was the sixth set and third core set released for the game. Like previous core sets, it had no expansion symbol, and had just the artist credit at the bottom left.
The set...
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| Urza's Saga |
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Urza's Saga is the 15th expert level set, a 350-card Magic: The Gathering expansion set that debuted in October 1998. Some employees of Wizards consider it one of the most powerful sets ever released. The expansion symbol features a pair of gears...
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| Nemesis |
Nemesis is the second set in the Mercadian Masques block of cards of Magic: The Gathering, along with the expansions Mercadian Masques and Prophecy. Its expansion symbol is an axe.
The Phyrexian invasion of Dominaria is nearing; the Dark Lord's...
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| Mirage |
Mirage was the fifteenth Magic: The Gathering set and ninth expert level set, released in October 1996. This expansion began the first official block set with one large expansion being followed by two smaller expansions all tied together through...
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| Visions |
Visions was the sixteenth Magic: The Gathering set and tenth expert level set, released in February 1997. This expansion continued the Mirage block by using the same setting and mechanics introduced in Mirage. The expansion symbol for Visions is a V...
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| Kev Walker |
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Kevin "Kev" Walker is a British comics artist and illustrator, based in Leeds, who worked mainly on 2000 AD and Warhammer comics and the collectible card game Magic: The Gathering. He is now working for Marvel Comics.
Walker began his career in 1987...
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| Urza's Legacy |
Urza's Legacy is a Magic: The Gathering set, second in the Urza Block. Urza's Legacy was released in February 1999.
This set is the first set to feature premium cards also known as foil cards, inserted randomly into boosters.
Urza's Legacy continues...
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| Urza's Destiny |
Urza's Destiny is a Magic: The Gathering set, third in the Urza Block. Urza's Destiny was released on June 23, 1999. It is widely considered one of the most powerful sets ever printed, spawning some of the most feared decks of all time.
With the...
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| 9th Edition |
Ninth Edition (9th Edition) or Core Set is the third latest base set for the collectible trading card game, Magic: The Gathering.
Ninth Edition features many cards from older base sets and expansions. While many of these cards were very powerful...
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| Christopher Rush |
Christopher Rush is an illustrator for Magic: The Gathering. In total, he has illustrated over 100 cards for the series. Most of his work for Wizards of the Coast was done on the earliest sets, where he also helped with various design and marketing...
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| 8th Edition |
Eighth Edition (8th Edition) or Core Set was the standard base set for the collectible trading card game, Magic: The Gathering from its release in 2003 until 9th Edition's release in 2005. Its expansion symbol is the number 8 with 3 cards behind it....
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| 4th Edition |
The Fourth Edition of Magic: The Gathering was the tenth set released for the game, and the fourth base set (or "core set"). The set was released in April 1995 and contained 378 cards. It was the first set to reprint cards from the expansions...
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| Dave Dorman |
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Dave Dorman (born 1958 in Michigan) is a science fiction and fantasy illustrator.
Dorman's parents are Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Jack N. Dorman and Phyllis Dorman. Both parents are deceased. Dorman is married to award-winning TV/video producer,...
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| Coldsnap |
For other uses of this term, see Cold snap.
Coldsnap is the third set in the Ice Age block for the Magic:The Gathering collectible card game. It was released on July 21, 2006 by Wizards of the Coast. The set came out over ten years after Ice Age was...
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| Beatdown Set |
Beatdown is an expansion set for the card game Magic: The Gathering, and the fourth compilation set. It was a set focused on the brutal destruction of opponents. It was created for special reprint purposes only and was not legal in Standard at the...
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| Jeff Easley |
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Jeff Easley (born 1954 in Nicholasville, Kentucky) is a fantasy artist in the tradition of Frank Frazetta, working in oils to create pieces of detail and depth.
Easley was born in Nicholasville, Kentucky, in 1954. He drew a lot as a child,...
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| 5th Edition |
The Fifth Edition was the seventeenth Magic: The Gathering set and fifth core set, a revision of the base set released in March of 1997. It contained 449 cards, counting multiple illustrations of basic lands, making it the largest card set in the...
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| Terese Nielsen |
Terese Nielsen (born in Aurora, Nebraska, 1966) is a California-based freelance fantasy artist. She has gained a fan following mainly because of her illustrations for the trading card game Magic: The Gathering. Nielsen has produced art for both...
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| Trample |
To trample generally means to crush underfoot. Stampeding animals often cause injury to people by trampling them. During the Middle Ages, horses were sometimes trained to trample opposing soldiers.
Trampling may also have a sexual connotation,...
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| Rogue |
The rogue or thief is one of the standard playable character class in most editions of the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game. A rogue is a versatile character, capable of sneaky combat and nimble tricks. The rogue is stealthy and dextrous...
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| Wizard |
The wizard is one of the standard character class in the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game. A wizard is an arcane magic user, and is considered less effective in mêlée combat than other classes.
The Magic-User class was inspired by the...
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