7th Edition
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| Release Date | April, 2001 | |
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| Size | 350 (110 Common 110 Uncommon 110 Rare 20 Land) | |
| Expansion Code | 7ED | |
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| 6th Edition | 7th Edition | 8th Edition |
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| Planeshift | 7th Edition | Apocalypse |
7th Edition is a Core Set that was released in 2001. It was the first Core Set to include foil cards. Thorn Elemental was the promotional foil. Each card in 7th Edition featured new artwork.
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[edit] Cycles
7th Edition has 4 cycles and a vertical cycle.
- Circles of protection: Each of these common white enchantments has the ability to prevent the next damage from a source of a color for
— Circle of Protection: White, Circle of Protection: Blue, Circle of Protection: Black, Circle of Protection: Red and Circle of Protection: Green.
- Diamonds: Each of these uncommon artifacts costs
to play, comes into play tapped and produces one mana of the appropriate color when tapped — Charcoal Diamond, Fire Diamond, Marble Diamond, Moss Diamond, and Sky Diamond. They were originally printed in Mirage.
- Lucky charms: Each of these uncommon artifacts has a triggered ability that allows the controller pay to gain 1 life when a spell of a given color resolves — Ivory Cup, Crystal Rod, Throne of Bone, Iron Star, and Wooden Sphere.
- Painlands: Each of these rare lands has "
: add to your mana pool. : Add C or D to your mana pool. [This] deals 1 damage to you." C and D are allied colors of mana. These lands are called painlands because their use for colored mana is "painful," referring to the damage they do to you. — Adarkar Wastes, Brushland, Underground River, Sulfurous Springs, and Karplusan Forest.
[edit] Vertical Cycle
- Super tramplers: A vertical cycle of creatures that could do their combat damage to the defending player as though they weren't blocked — Lone Wolf, Pride of Lions, Thorn Elemental. It is said that this ability was created because Wizards thought trample was too confusing, yet this new ability wasn't taken too well in its place.
[edit] Mirrored pairs
7th Edition has 5 mirrored pairs.
- Castle (white)and Orcish Oriflamme (red) are both uncommon enchantments for
C that conditionally affect a creature's power or toughness.
- Earthquake (red) and Hurricane (green) are both rare sorceries that have a mana cost of
C and deal X damage to all non-flying or flying creatures and each player.
- Elvish Champion (green) and Goblin King (red) are both rare Lords for CC that give +1/+1 and landwalk of its color to creatures of their type.
- Holy Strength (white) and Unholy Strength (black) are both common Auras for C with enchant creature that give a mirrored bonus to the enchanted creature's power/toughness.
- Northern Paladin, Southern Paladin (white), Eastern Paladin and Western Paladin (black) are all rare 3/3 Knight creatures for CC with the ability to destroy a permanent of the enemy color for CC,.
[edit] Storyline
Withing it's art and flavor text, the set narrates events of a war between two bands led by the Northern Paladin and Southern Paladin versus the Eastern Paladin and the Western Paladin.
[edit] Theme Decks
7th Edition was the first core set to have theme decks.
| Theme deck name | |||||
| White | Blue | Black | Red | Green | |
| Armada | □ | ||||
| Bomber | ■ | ||||
| Decay | ■ | ||||
| Infestation | ■ | ||||
| Way Wild | ■ | ||||
[edit] Cards added to 7th Edition
[edit] Changes in rarity
[edit] Cards removed from 6th Edition
[edit] External links
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