Template:Featarticle/October 2008
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[edit] October 1-4, 2008
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- Eventide, codenamed "Doughnut", is the forty-sixth Magic expansion, and was released July 25, 2008, as the second set, of two, in the Shadowmoor block. Eventide's hybrid spells are enemy-colored, as opposed to Shadowmoor's hybrid spells being ally-colored. It introduces the ability word chroma, and the mechanic retrace.
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- Eventide is the third novel of the Lorwyn Cycle. It was written by Scott McGough and Cory Herndon.
[edit] October 4-19, 2008
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- Shards of Alara is the first set in the Alara block. The prerelease events for this set were held on September 27-28, 2008. Release events were held on October 3, 2008, the same day the set went on sale. Shards of Alara introduced a new rarity level called mythic rare. The set as a whole has multicolored cards as an overarching theme, due to the setting being split into five "shards" with no contact with each other, each shard was given its own distinct mechanical theme. These themes include; the shard of Bant was given the "exalted" ability, the shard of Esper was given an emphasis on artifacts (and colored artifacts), the shard of Grixis was given the "unearth" ability, the shard of Jund was given the "devour" ability, and the shard of Naya was given an emphasis on creatures with power of 5 or greater ("5-power matters"). Shards also featured the return of cycling for the third time (or fourth, including Future Sight) since the Urza block.
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- Alara was a whole world before the Sundering broke it into the five shards: Bant, Esper, Grixis, Jund and Naya.
[edit] October 19-26, 2008
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- From the Vault: Dragons is a limited box set that was released on August 29, 2008 to celebrate the 15th anniversary of Magic. It is available worldwide in English.
- It contains 15 dragon cards, black-bordered and "printed using a foil process never before used on Magic: The Gathering cards". Six of them have new art, and the set includes a preview card from Shards of Alara. The set contains a newly designed spindown life counter that bears the unique expansion symbol of this collector's set and an insert with a rules for the Elder Dragon Highlander format. The set retails for $34.99 US.
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- The Duelist was a magazine published by Wizards of the Coast.
[edit] October 26-31, 2008
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- Onslaught is the twenty-eighth Magic expansion and was released in 2002 as the first set in the Onslaught block. It has a theme that focused heavily on "tribal" cards, or cards that are concerned with creature types. It introduced the "morph" keyword, as well as revisited "cycling", and made "This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures." a keyword ability, "fear". Onslaught introduced a number of major mechanics and featured the first return of a keyword from abeyance (cycling).
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- Randy Buehler is an employee of Wizards of the Coast (currently the Vice President of Digital Gaming) and a former Magic: The Gathering pro-player.
