8th Edition
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| Release Date | July 28, 2003 | |
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| Keywords/ Ability words | Fear newly keyworded | |
| Size | 350 (113 Common 113 Uncommon 113 Rare 20 Land) | |
| Expansion Code | 8ED | |
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| 7th Edition | 8th Edition | 9th Edition |
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| Scourge | 8th Edition | Mirrodin |
Eighth Edition (8th Edition) is a Core Set that was released on July 29, 2003. Global Celebration Tournaments were held July 26-27, 2003 as a release event of 8th Edition, which also commemmorated Magic's 10th Anniversary.[1]
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[edit] Set details
Eighth Edition features 350 cards including cards from every previous expansion set since Alpha. The set introduces a new improved cardface design that allows for larger art and more card text. The frame for artifacts was considered too close to the frame for white cards in appearance. The set features randomly inserted premium black-bordered versions of all cards in the set, and also oversized Box-Topper Cards found at the top of each booster display box.
[edit] Changes
[edit] Card changes
- The tap symbol
changed to the simple, straightforward, easy-to-see curved arrow, without the rectangle behind it.[2]
[edit] Rules changes
- The type line of each basic land includes the words "Basic Land" and the land's type, separated by a long dash. For example, a Forest card has the printed type line "Basic Land — Forest." Plains, Island, Swamp, Mountain, and Forest cards printed in earlier sets should be treated as though they had the same type line as the Eighth Edition basic lands.
- Your normal card draw each turn no longer uses the stack. Instead you simply draw a card as your draw step starts. You see what you draw before abilities that trigger "at the beginning of your draw step" are put onto the stack. Spells and abilities that affect the normal card draw should be played during the upkeep step, not the draw step.
[edit] Core game cards
The Eighth Edition core game (the two-player game box designed for new Magic players) contains seven cards that don't appear in Eighth Edition boosters. These cards are numbered S1/7 through S7/7, and they use the Eighth Edition expansion symbol. All of these cards are part of the Eighth Edition core set and are legal for play in all tournaments in which the Eighth Edition core set is legal.
- S1 Eager Cadet
- S2 Vengeance
- S3 Giant Octopus
- S4 Sea Eagle
- S5 Vizzerdrix
- S6 Enormous Baloth
- S7 Silverback Ape
[edit] Keywords
8th Edition is the first core set to see the following keywords in print:
- Fear - An evasion ability which was spelled out became a keyword in Onslaught; creature cannot be blocked except by black or artifact creatures. (See Severed Legion)
[edit] Cycles
8th Edition has 3 cycles.
- Circles of protection: Each of these common white enchantments has a mana cost of
and the ability to prevent the all damage from a source of a given color for — Circle of Protection: White, Circle of Protection: Blue, Circle of Protection: Black, Circle of Protection: Red, and Circle of Protection: Green.
- 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.
- Tap lands are dual type lands that come into play tapped. They are from Invasion — Shivan Oasis, Elfhame Palace, Coastal Tower, Salt Marsh and Urborg Volcano.
[edit] Cards added to 8th Edition
- Red's Enrage replaced black's Howl From Beyond in both 8th and 9th Edition.
- Green's Naturalize replaced white's Disenchant in 8th and all future core sets.
- The Urzatron set was added and found its way into many tournament decks during its inclusion in core sets.
[edit] Theme decks
The preconstructed theme decks are:
| Theme deck name | |||||
| White | Blue | Black | Red | Green | |
| Expulsion | ■ | ||||
| Heavy Hitters | ■ | ||||
| Life Boost | □ | ||||
| Sky Slam | ■ | ||||
| Speed Scorch | ■ | ||||
[edit] Changes in rarity to 8th Edition
[edit] Cards removed from 7th Edition
- Counterspell was not printed in 8th Edition or since. It had been deemed that a hard counter costing just
was too powerful. Cancel from Time Spiral would become the hard counter at .
- Merfolk were not printed in 8th Edition.
[edit] External links
[edit] References
- ↑ "Promo premium Rukh Egg", by "Magic Arcana", DailyMTG.com, Friday, June 27, 2003
- ↑ "The Changing Tap Symbol", by "Magic Arcana", DailyMTG.com, Monday, July 12, 2004
