Template:Featarticle/March 2008
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March 1-2, 2008
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10th Edition, or Tenth Edition, the current core set, was released July 13, 2007. For the first time, Wizards of the Coast put legendary creatures in a core set, each color received two legendary creatures, and a legendary artifact, Legacy Weapon, was included. This is the second time (after Alpha/Beta) using black borders in a core set for non-premium cards. This is also the first time since 5th Edition that the core set has not been 350 cards. The creature types of many cards in the Tenth Edition set have been updated to sync them up with the current Magic conventions. The most notable change is that the cycle of manlands and Chimeric Staff now have creature types when animated. Also the Lord creature type has been eliminated. (read more)
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- Nicol Bolas, one of the most powerful planeswalkers and also one of the oldest beings in Dominia.
March 2-9, 2008
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The rifts or time rifts were fractures in the planar fabric of Dominaria and to a lesser extent other planes (such as the Dead Zone on Ulgrotha). In the greater scheme of things the rifts resulted from the imbalance between the primal forces of the Multiverse and the power of godlike planeswalkers.
Each of the major rifts was caused by some catastrophe, and in almost every case a planeswalker was involved. Some time after Karona's destruction the rifts that accumulated over Dominaria's history proved too much — the damage to the plane was too severe to allow for self-repair.
While each rift had a unique "personality" linked to the circumstances of its creation, they all had some common properties: They cut off the plane from its mana and caused anomalies in space and time. They also influenced each other, and with each additional rift the others grew.
The rifts allowed creatures, people, objects, and spells from the past, alternate timelines, and possible futures to be pulled into the present day, while present Dominarians were sometimes caught up in the rifts and sent to times other than their own. Some wizards used the rifts to their advantage, learning to draw magic through them.
When phased-out Shiv was about to return, Teferi realized, that without repairs Dominaria would be destroyed. Being the Nexus of the Multiverse it would take every other plane with it in a chain reaction.
The keywords split second, vanishing, and suspend are associated with the time rifts.(read more)
Featured Article to Improve of the Week
- Lorwyn is the first book in the Lorwyn Cycle and is written by Cory J. Herndon and Scott McGough.
March 9-16, 2008
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This is a timeline of the Magic: The Gathering storyline. It is an unofficial document, but all information on it is taken from official canon sources. All stories that could be dated, or could not be dated but could be placed at some point in the timeline because of their connection to other stories, have been incorporated.
Here is a selection of a few significant events:
- -25,000 Around this time the Elder Dragons, who had ruled Dominaria for ages, were engaged in the Dragon War.
- -4838 Yawgmoth born.
- 27-28 A new peace conference in Kroog also ends disastrously and is the official beginning of the Brothers' War.
- 64 The final battle of the Brothers' War takes place.
- 450 The beginning of the Ice Age of Dominaria.
- 2934 Freyalise completes the World Spell.
- 3285 The Tolarian Academy is founded.
- 4205 The Phyrexian Invasion starts.
Featured Article to Improve of the Week
- Morningtide is the second book in the Lorwyn Cycle and is written by Cory J. Herndon and Scott McGough.
March 17-23, 2008
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Statistics and trivia is a list of information relating to Magic cards…
Do you know that there are 9261 different vintage-legal magic cards? (Un-sets not included).
Of those 9261 cards;
1486 are white
825 are white creatures
104 are white sorceries…
Do you know the expansion/core set with the most cards?
How about the least amount of cards?
Do you know the spell with the highest converted mana cost?
How about the highest activation cost?
Which creature has the highest power?
Highest toughness? No they are not the same creature.
For these and many more interesting facts about Magic (read more...)
Featured Article to Improve of the Week
- Heidar was a wizard who lived at the time of the Thaw. With his Rimewind magic he tried to undo the World Spell and plunge Dominaria into a new Ice Age.
March 24-30, 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.
March 31, 2008
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Sarpadia is a continent far to the south on Dominaria that was ravaged by warfare during the period between the Brothers' War and the Ice Age. Sarpadia is relatively isolated and as such many of it's denizens and history is unknown. What is known though is that the five dominatn empires around 170 AR were destroyed by invading forces and rebellion. Most races were simply entirely wiped out, but some escaped to the North leaving a species called the thrulls vastly dominating the entire continent. Most of Sarpadia's story is told through the Fallen Empires expansion.
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- The Skyship Weatherlight was a great ship capable of moving from plane to plane. This ship was designed by Urza as one of the main parts of the Legacy and proved key for the efforts to save Dominaria from the Phyrexian Invaders.
