Mirrodin

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Mirrodin
Symbol Sword of Kaldra
Design Team Mark Rosewater (lead), Bill Rose, Brian Tinsman, Mike Elliott, and Tyler Bielman
Development Team Randy Buehler (lead), Brian Schneider, Henry Stern, Elaine Chase, Brandon Bozzi, and Brian Tinsman.
Release Date October 2, 2003
Mechanics Artifacts, Equipment
Keywords/
Ability words
Affinity, Imprint, Entwine
Size 306 (110 Common 88 Uncommon 88 Rare 20 Land)
Expansion Code MRD
Development Codename Bacon
Sets in Mirrodin block
Mirrodin Darksteel Fifth Dawn
Magic: The Gathering
Chronology
8th Edition Mirrodin Darksteel

Mirrodin is the thirty-first Magic expansion and was released in 2003 as the first set in the Mirrodin block. The prerelease events for this set were held on September 20-21, 2003.[1]

Contents

[edit] Set details

This set features:

  • Equipment - a new type of artifact which can be attached to your creature to arm them with special abilities. If the creature dies, the Equipment "falls" back into play and can be re-attached to another of your creatures such as Loxodon Warhammer.

[edit] Keywords

  • Imprint — This ability found on artifacts allows you to remove a card from the game and "imprint" the attributes of the removed card onto your artifact such as Chrome Mox.
  • Entwine — These spells that give you two options, or pay an extra cost and do both such as Tooth and Nail.

[edit] Cycles

Miroddin has eight Cycles:

[edit] Notable cards

[edit] Theme decks

The preconstructed theme decks are:

Theme deck name
Colors included
White Blue Black Red Green
Bait and Bludgeon
Little Bashers
Sacrificial Bam
Wicked Big

[edit] Reprinted cards

The following cards have been reprinted from previous sets and included in Mirrodin.

  • Annul — was last seen in Urza's Saga. In Mirrodin (as opposed to Urza's Saga), the focus is reversed, with countering artifacts becoming the primary value, with countering enchantments as a side benefit.
  • Arrest — was last seen in Mercadian Masques.
  • Atog — was last seen in 5th Edition.
  • Bottle Gnomes — was last seen in Tempest.
  • Brown Ouphe — was last seen in Ice Age, "interesting interactions in a set full of artifacts. So it was included in the set for play reasons."
  • Cathodion — was last seen in Urza's Saga. Bizarre and very much an artifact. He's bigger than any color could get for this cost at that time. Like his predecessor Su-Chi, Cathodion's ability was costed as a drawback for its mana burn danger, but clever mages found ways to turn it into an advantage. A host of new "Sacrifice an artifact:" abilities in the block gave him plenty of new combo potential.
  • Chromatic Sphere — was last seen in Invasion.
  • Creeping Mold — was last seen in 8th Edition.
  • Detonate — was last seen in 5th Edition. A flavorful combination of burn and artifact destruction, Detonate had a new role in Mirrodin block: Destroying artifact lands for just Image:Manar.gif.
  • Dragon Blood — was last seen in Urza's Saga. A definite artifact feel and good interaction with Mirrodin block's +1/+1 counter theme made this a good fit.
  • Icy Manipulator — was last seen in Ice Age. Along with Chrome Mox and Gilded Lotus, Icy Manipulator provided a "Greatest Artifact Hits of Magic" feel.
  • Ornithopter — was last seen in 6th Edition, "basic engineering design that, given enough time and development of a civilization, always gets invented sooner or later."
  • Shatter — was last seen in 8th Edition.
  • Stalking Stones — was last seen in Tempest.
  • Terror — was last seen in Beatdown.
  • Triskelion — was last seen in 4th Edition. A classic, powerful artifact creature and a great fit with the +1/+1 counter theme of the block.
  • Yotian Soldier — was last seen in 4th Edition.

[edit] Functional reprints

Miroddin has four functional reprints:

Tel-Jilad Chosen is a near-functional reprint of Argothian Pixies from Antiquities. The former specifically says it has "Protection from Artifacts", the latter has almost full protection but not quite.

[edit] References

  1. Mirrodin Fact Sheet, by "Magic Arcana", MTG.com, Monday, September 1, 2003.

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