Darksteel
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- For other uses, see Darksteel (disambiguation).
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| Design Team | Bill Rose (lead) Tyler Bielman Brian Schneider Mark Rosewater | |
| Development Team | Henry Stern (lead) Tyler Bielman Brandon Bozzi Charlie Catino Brian Schneider | |
| Release Date | February 6, 2004 | |
| Mechanics | ||
| Keywords/ Ability words | Indestructible, Modular | |
| Size | 165 (55 Common 55 Uncommon 55 Rare) | |
| Expansion Code | DST | |
| Development Codename | Lettuce | |
| Sets in Mirrodin block | ||
| Mirrodin | Darksteel | Fifth Dawn |
| Magic: The Gathering Chronology | ||
| Mirrodin | Darksteel | Fifth Dawn |
Darksteel is the thirty-second Magic expansion and was released in 2004 as the second set in the Mirrodin block. The prerelease events for this set were held on January 24-25, 2004.[1]
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[edit] Set details
The set introduced the keywords "modular" and "indestructible".
[edit] Cycles
Darksteel has four cycles:
- Affinity Golems: Each of these common Golem artifact creatures has affinity for a basic land type. — Razor Golem, Spire Golem, Dross Golem, Oxidda Golem, and Tangle Golem.
- "Echoing" spells: These spells affect all chosen cards with the same name (i.e. destroy all enchantments with the same name) and were illustrated by Greg Staples — Echoing Calm, Echoing Truth, Echoing Decay, Echoing Ruin, and Echoing Courage.
- "Lucky charm" artifacts: A horizontal cycle of uncommon artifacts, each costing
, a "lucky charm" gives its controller to gain 1 life when a spell of the appropriate color is played. Each of them was illustrated by Alan Pollack — Angel's Feather, Kraken's Eye, Demon's Horn, Dragon's Claw, and Wurm's Tooth
- Pulses: A horizontal cycle of rare spells, each costing
{C}{C} and provides a resource. The Pulse returns to its owners hand after resolution, so long an opponent still has a higher count of the resource given. — Pulse of the Fields, Pulse of the Dross, Pulse of the Grid, Pulse of the Forge, and Pulse of the Tangle.
[edit] Notable cards
- Æther Vial — banned in Mirrodin block tournaments.
- Arcbound Ravager — banned in Mirrodin Block tournaments.
- Skullclamp — banned in Extended format tournaments.
- Darksteel Colossus
- Shield of Kaldra — is the first card to mention a card in its text box that hasn't been printed yet (Helm of Kaldra)[2].
- Sword of Fire and Ice
[edit] Reprinted cards
The following cards have been reprinted from previous sets and included in Darksteel.
- Fireball — was last seen in Beatdown.[3]
- Inflame — was last seen in Prophecy.
- Juggernaut — was last seen in Revised.
[edit] Functional reprint
- Hoverguard Observer is a functional reprint of Stronghold Zeppelin from Nemesis, save for creature type.
- Ur-Golem's Eye is a functional reprint of Sisay's Ring.
[edit] Theme decks
The preconstructed theme decks are:
| Theme deck name | |||||
| White | Blue | Black | Red | Green | |
| Master Blaster | ■ | ||||
| Mind Swarm | ■ | ||||
| Swarm & Slam | □ | ■ | |||
| Transference | ■ | ||||
[edit] External links
[edit] References
- ↑ "Darksteel Fact Sheet", by "Magic Arcana", MTG.com, Monday, January 5, 2004.
- ↑ "What's a "Helm of Kaldra"?", by "Magic Arcana", MTG.com, Thursday, January 29, 2004.
- ↑ "The return of Fireball", by "Magic Arcana", MTG.com, Monday, January 26, 2004.
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