Planechase
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| Design Team | Brian Tinsman (lead), Aaron Forsythe, Peter Knudson, and Kenneth Nagle | |
| Development Team | Mike Turian (lead), Dave Guskin, Peter Knudson, Scott Larabee, Mark Purvis, and Mark L. Gottlieb | |
| Release Date | September 4th, 2009 | |
| Mechanics | Plane cards | |
| Keywords | - | |
| Size | 240+40 plane cards (four 60+10-card theme decks) | |
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| Development Codename | Hopscotch[1] | |
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| From the Vault: Exiled | Planechase | Masters Edition III |
Planechase is a set of four "game packs", each consisting of ten oversized plane cards, a 60-card deck, a six-sided planar die and a strategy insert with multiplayer rules. The MSRP for an individual pack is $19.99. The set was released on September 4th, 2009, with release events held September 4-6.
The plane cards represent specific locations on planes in the Magic storyline, introducing "a groundbreaking new way to experience planeswalking". The theme decks are tournament legal and will each contain eight rares. Additionally, there will be a different preview card from the upcoming set Zendikar in each of the four decks.
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[edit] Planar Magic
Planechase introduces a new casual format named Planar Magic, which simulates traveling between different planes using the new plane cards. The set comes with a six-sided planar dice, that features the planeswalker symbol 
on one face, the chaos symbol 
on another and four blank faces.
Each player enters the game with a regular deck and a planar deck, which features ten or more of the new plane cards. The first player to start puts the first card in his planar deck face-up in the command zone. A plane card usually has two abilities. The first one applies as long as the card is revealed, the second one is the so called chaos ability.
During each player's turn, that player may roll the planar dice, whenever he or she could cast a sorcery. While the first roll each turn is free, all subsequent rolls in that turn cost 
more than the last. If the is rolled, the owner of the current face-up plane card puts it on the bottom of his planar deck and the current player reveals the top card of his or her planar deck. If is rolled the chaos ability of the plane card triggers. With blank faces, nothing happens.
[edit] Plane cards
Each of the four Planechase' decks contains ten unique Plane cards only available in that deck. Additionally, a special Plane card entitled Tazeem from the Plane Zendikar was given out at the release event.[2]
[edit] Theme decks
| Theme deck name | |||||
| White | Blue | Black | Red | Green | |
| Elemental Thunder | ■ | ■ | |||
| Metallic Dreams | □ | ■ | ■ | ■ | ■ |
| Strike Force | □ | ■ | |||
| Zombie Empire | ■ | ||||
[edit] External links
- Official Planechase Information Product Page — Magic: The Gathering
- "Planechase Rules Revealed", by magicthegathering.com staff, DailyMTG.com, Monday, August 10, 2009
- "Images of Planechase", by "Magic Arcana", DailyMTG.com, Thursday, July 16, 2009
- "Announcing Planechase", by "Magic Arcana", DailyMTG.com, Tuesday, May 12, 2009
[edit] References
- ↑ "Planechasing Your Dream", by Mark Rosewater, DailyMTG.com, Monday, August 31, 2009
- ↑ "Planechase Release Promo", by "Magic Arcana", DailyMTG.com, Tuesday, September 01, 2009
