Dissension
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- For other uses, see Dissension (disambiguation).
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| Design Team | Aaron Forsythe (lead) Mark Gottlieb Brandon Bozzi Mark Rosewater | |
| Development Team | Matt Place (lead) Mark Rosewater Brian Schneider Steve Warner | |
| Release Date | May 5, 2006 | |
| Mechanics | Guild System, Hybrid mana, Multicolored cards, Split cards | |
| Keywords/ Ability words | Forecast, Hellbent, Graft | |
| Size | 180 (60 Common 60 Uncommon 60 Rare) | |
| Expansion Code | DIS | |
| Development Codename | Delete | |
| Sets in Ravnica block | ||
| Ravnica: City of Guilds | Guildpact | Dissension |
| Magic: The Gathering Chronology | ||
| Guildpact | Dissension | Coldsnap |
Dissension is the thirty-ninth Magic: The Gathering expansion, and was released in May 2006 as the third and final set of the Ravnica block. It has 180 cards — 15 more than normal for a small set — to make room for a reappearance of the split cards. The prerelease events for this set were held on September 23-24, 2006.[1]
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[edit] Mechanics and themes
Dissension continues the guild model and introduces the final three two-color guilds, two with a new keyword and one with an ability word. The guilds and associated mechanics are as follows:
[edit] Azorius Senate
— received the keyword Forecast.
[edit] Simic Combine
— received the keyword Graft.
[edit] Cult of Rakdos
— received the ability word Hellbent.
[edit] Protection
Dissension expanded on the protection ability by introducing protection from monocolored and protection from multicolored.
[edit] Theme decks
In Dissension there were three guilds so there are just three theme decks instead of the standard number; four. The preconstructed theme decks are:
| Theme deck name | |||||
| White | Blue | Black | Red | Green | |
| Azorius Ascendant | □ | ■ | |||
| Simic Mutology | ■ | ■ | |||
| Rakdos Bloodsport | ■ | ■ | |||
[edit] Cycles
Dissension has four cycles:
- Eidolons: Each of these 2/2 spirits, each with a converted mana cost of
, can be sacrificed for a boon and may be returned from the graveyard to your hand whenever you play a multicolored card — Aurora Eidolon, Enigma Eidolon, Entropic Eidolon, Sandstorm Eidolon, and Verdant Eidolon.
- Uncommon split cards: All of these split cards are centered around one color and each side represents an allied-colored pair with that color. Pure/Simple, Trial/Error, Supply/Demand, Rise/Fall, and Hit/Run.
- Rare split cards: All of these split cards are centered around one color and each side represents an enemy-colored pair with that color. Research/Development, Bound/Determined, Odds/Ends, Hide/Seek, and Crime/Punishment.
Some cards are part of the ten Ravnica block mega cycles.
[edit] Mirrored pairs
- Guildpact Spirits: Guardian of the Guildpact and Enemy of the Guildpact are two spirits, one white and one black, with protection from a color quality. The Guardian had protection from monocolored spells and permanents, while the Enemy had protection from multicolored.
- Skeins: Vision Skeins and Delirium Skeins are an instant and sorcery, respectively, which affect the hand size of all players equally. Vision Skeins causes all players to draw two cards, while Delirium Skeins forces all players to discard three. Both are significantly undercosted relative to their targeted equivalents.
[edit] Notable cards
- Avatar of Discord
- Demonfire - used in many formats including legacy until obsoleted by the Conflux card Banefire
- Pride of the Clouds
- Research/Development - Used in some Vintage decks to have access to utility cards in sideboard.
- Simic Sky Swallower - used in Legacy deck Ichorid and Vintage Oath decks due to evasion and shroud.
- Spell Snare - Counterspell commonly used in Legacy and Extended decks
- Trygon Predator - anti-artifact/enchantment creature sometimes used in Legacy sideboards.
- Vigean Intuition: This instant mimicked the ability of Wood Sage, an older blue/green card from Tempest.
[edit] Reprinted cards
The following cards have been reprinted from previous sets and included in Dissension.
- Seal of Doom — was last seen in Nemesis.
- Seal of Fire — was last seen in Nemesis.
- Thrive — was last seen in Prophecy. Thrive augmented the graft ability found in this set.
