Template:Featarticle/September 2008
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[edit] September 1-7, 2008
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Legends is the seventh Magic: The Gathering set and the third expansion set, released in June 1994. It is not considered part of any block. Legends introduced: legendary creatures — unique creatures which could only be on the table one at a time (of the same name), legendary lands — the first set of unique lands to see print and multicolored cards — cards which required more the one color to play. It introduced the following mechanics: bands with other, poison counters, rampage and world enchantments.
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- Rampage is a keyword ability that gives an attacking creature a bonus to its power and toughness when it is blocked by more than one creature. Rampage first appeared in Legends; the last tournament-legal set with it was Fifth Edition, until Craw Giant was reprinted in Time Spiral.
[edit] September 7-14, 2008
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Urza's Saga is the sixteenth Magic expansion and was released in 1999 as the first set in the Urza block. Tournament packs changed in size from 60 to 75 cards. Urza's Saga included the first foil card for prerelease tournaments, Lightning Dragon. The keyword ability Cycling was introduced, which allowed players to discard unwanted cards to draw new ones, was introduced in this set. Echo, a keyword requiring a second mana payment on a permanent in exchange for higher than usual stats, also debuted. Urza's Saga is famous for its high power-level cards including Morphling, Smokestack, Sneak Attack and Tolarian Academy.
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- Echo is a keyword ability on permanents that requires the permanent's controller to pay its echo cost at the beginning of the player's next upkeep after he or she gains control of it, or sacrifice it. Echo first appeared in the Urza block, but has since been revisited in the Time Spiral block.
[edit] September 14-28, 2008
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- Chronicles was the twelfth Magic: The Gathering set, released in July, 1995. The set is notable for being the only tournament-legal non-Core Set that introduced no new cards. All cards in the set were from the Arabian Nights, Antiquities, Legends, and The Dark expansions. Each card was white-bordered, while the cards in their original sets were black-bordered.
- Chronicles was printed so that new players, and other players who were unable to buy the sets originally due to their quick sellouts, would be able to have their own cards from those sets.
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- Renaissance, a reprint set very similar to Chronicles, was only released into German, French, and Italian markets.
[edit] September 28-30, 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.
