Template:Featarticle/December 2008
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[edit] December 1-7, 2008
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- Portal Three Kingdoms is a starter-level set released in 1999. It was specifically designed for the Asian market and was not sold in North America. It was mainly printed in Japanese, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese, but there was also an English printing, sold mostly in Australia and New Zealand. As a result, the English versions of the cards are amongst the rarest in the game. As with the previous two Portal sets, the cards in Portal Three Kingdoms were not tournament-legal at the time of printing, but were made legal in Vintage and Legacy on 20 October 2005.
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- Horsemanship is a keyword ability on creatures that serves as an evasion ability. It is functionally identical to flying, however a creature with only one ability cannot block a creature with the other ability.
[edit] December 7-14, 2008
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- The Ravnica block is the eleventh block consisting of the large expansion Ravnica: City of Guilds (
), and the two small expansions Guildpact (
) and Dissension (
).
- The Ravnica block centered around exploring multicolor cards and concepts in depth. It was the first block to introduce the "guild model". Where older blocks showed an evolution of the abilities and/or keywords such that the newest set was more advanced (complicated), the guild model contains a number of guilds that are evolved as much as they are going to be, until another block touches on the guilds again.
- Keywords introduced in this block: Bloodthirst, Convoke, Dredge, Forecast, Graft, Haunt, Hellbent, Radiance, Replicate, Transmute. This block is the first to feature "hybrid mana".
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[edit] December 14-21, 2008
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- Promotional cards are ones that are not normally found in core or expansion sets. They can be obtained through giveaways, redemption programs or other such non-traditional sources.
- Promotional cards include, but are not limited to, alternate-art land promos (such as the Guru lands), celebration cards (such as the Shichifukujin Dragon which was created to celebrate the opening of the Japan DCI Tournament Center in Tokyo) event cards (such as the Nalathni Dragon promotional card given away during the 1994 DragonCon convention in Atlanta), tournament promos (such as the ones given out during the Arena League events).
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- The Magic Player Rewards program was set up by Wizards of the Coast to promote play in DCI tournaments. Promotional cards were sent to eligible players based on the number of DCI-sanctioned tournaments they participate in.
[edit] December 21-28, 2008
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- The Lorwyn block is the thirteenth block, consists of only two sets: Lorwyn(
) and Morningtide (
).
- The keywords introduced in this block include Champion, Changeling, Clash, Evoke, Hideaway, Kinship, Prowl, and Reinforce.
- The mechanics introduced in this block include Planeswalkers, Tribal.
- The race/class system is a major theme of this block.
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- 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.
[edit] December 28-31, 2008
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- The Shadowmoor block is the fourteenth block; as a mini-block it consist of only two sets: one large expansion, Shadowmoor (
), and one small expansion, Eventide (
). The block came out during the first half of 2008.
- Ability word introduced: Chroma
- Keywords introduced in this block: Conspire, Persist, Retrace, Wither.
- Mechanics introduced in this block: The untap symbol (
).
- A major theme of the Shadowmoor block was color. Hybrid mana, introduced in the Ravnica block, was brought back in Shadowmoor and given a more thorough treatment. -1/-1 counters were among the block's minor themes.
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- Ajani Goldmane is a white-aligned planeswalker (also known as the red-and-white-aligned Ajani Vengeant).
