Unhinged
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| Design Team | Mark Rosewater, Brady Dommermuth, Brandon Bozzi, Randy Buehler | |
| Development Team | same as design | |
| Release Date | November 20, 2004 | |
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| Size | 140 (55 Common 40 Uncommon 40 Rare 5 Land) | |
| Expansion Code | UNH | |
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| Unglued | Unhinged | |
| Magic: The Gathering Chronology | ||
| Champions of Kamigawa | Unhinged | Betrayers of Kamigawa |
Unhinged is a tournament-prohibited set and a follow-up to Unglued. It boasts many jokes of its own, and has even set a precedent or two of its own for tournament-worthy Magic. The set included 135 silver-border cards and 5 black-border cards (lands), all of which had foil versions. Some of the foil versions of these cards instrumentalize the foil layer itself for additional visual effects. The set is only available in English due to the difficulty to translate.
One card, called Super Secret Tech, only exists as a foil rare card and technically affects the foil card concept as a whole. Its rarity is supposedly ten times more common than that of other Unhinged foil rare cards.
Unhinged was the first set printed with the "13+" age rating as it was the first set to come out after the "age grading" policy was implemented on all of Wizards of the Coast games (not just Magic).
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[edit] Set details
A Booster contains 15 cards: 1 rare, 3 uncommons, 10 commons and 1 basic land.
- Unhinged cards are Silver Bordered, excluding the Basic Land cards.
- Every card has a foil version
- This may occur in a similar rate to "normal" Magic Sets.
- Some Foil versions have a special picture in the text box, similar to the expansion symbol promo cards normally have there, or other specials (e.g. Farewell to Arms, which shows a hand in the text box, or Gleemax, where you can see slightly letters on the picture)
- Like in Unglued, the Unhinged Basic Lands are tournament legal.
- Unlike other cards of this set, they are black bordered.
- There is one Basic Land version for each color (except for pink)
- They have no text box, the picture covers the entire card (except for the name, logically)
- In Unhinged occurs a sixth color: pink.
- Water Gun Balloon Game can create a pink permanent.
- In unhinged games, for abilities that let you produce mana of any color, you can choose {P} pink.
- There is no Unhinged (Basic) Land card that can produce pink mana.
- Avatar of Me can be whatever the color of your eyes are, allowing brown and hazel mana.
- Like in Unglued, the pictures in the Art Box are rising over the border.
- Like in Unglued, some cards have a special design.
- Many Unhinged cards are references to other Magic Cards, see Spoofs for further details.
- Many Unhinged cards show familiar Legends or similar things on the Artwork, such as Akroma, Angel of Wrath, Visara the Dreadful, Phage the Untouchable, Kamahl, Pit Fighter, Erhnam Djinn or Vizzerdrix.
[edit] Unhinged hidden message
Much like Unglued before it, each card in the Unhinged set -including Super Secret Tech- has a single word printed on the bottom of the card after the artist's name and card number. When all cards are placed in the proper order with other cards in the series they spell out a "secret message" detailing cards that allegedly did not make it into the set. Placing all the Unhinged cards in reverse alphabetical order will cause the following message to appear:
"Here are some more cards that didn't make it: Moronic Tutor; Lint Golem; Wave of Incontinence; I'm Quitting Magic; Bob from Accounting; Castrate; Mishra's Bling Bling; Dead Bunny Isle; Circle of Protection: Pants; Time Fart; Sliver and Onions; Kobold Ass Master; Thanks, Barn; Mild Mongrel; Robo-Samurai; Obligitory Angel; Chump-Blocking Orphan; Wrath of Dog; Celery Stalker; Hugs-a-lot Demon; Assticore; Codpiece of the Chosen; Hurl; What the Cluck?!; Nachomancer; Scrubotomy; Arcbound Noah; Darksteel Spork; Look at Me, I'm Accounts Receivable; Hydro Djinn; Bad Stone Rain Variant; S.O.B.F.M.; Pinko Kami; Purple Nurple; Form of Uncle Istvan; Them's Fightin' Wards; Spleen of Ramos; Fifteenth Pick; Squizzle, Goblin Nabizzle; Zombie Cheerleading Squad; Two-Way Myr; Bone Flute 2: Electric Boogaloo; Magic Offline; Nutclamp; Bwahahahaaa!; Dragon Ass; Phyrexian Sno-Cone Machine; Chimney Pimp; R.T.F.C.; Greased Weasel; Flame War; We Don't Need No Stinkin' Merfolk; Ting!; Timmy Power Gamer; and Disrobing Scepter (again!).
[edit] Spoofs
Several Unhinged Cards are references to "real", tournament-legal cards.
| Real Version | Unhinged Card Spoof | Reference to |
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| Ancestral Recall | Mise | ability; also references Lexivore in the flavor text; depicts Vizzerdrix in the normal art and Chicken a la King from in the special promo art |
| City of Brass | City of Ass | name and ability |
| Lhurgoyf | "Ach! Hans, Run!" | flavor text |
| Bouncing Beebles Bubbling Beebles | Bursting Beebles | name |
| Circle of Protection: White Circle of Protection: Blue Circle of Protection: Black Circle of Protection: Red Circle of Protection: Green | Circle of Protection: Art | probably also other Circles of Protection. |
| Shahrazad | Enter the Dungeon | ability (the subgame) |
| Erase | Erase (Not the Urza's Legacy One) | name |
| Denied! | Flaccify | Unglued card, showing the flavor text of "Denied" taped on "Flaccify". |
| Fireball and various wrong-colored misprints | The Ultimate Nightmare of Wizards of the Coast® Customer Service | making fun of the confusion caused by fireball's effect, plus the card is blue (it's cost is red), which makes fun of misprints in magic history |
| Form of the Dragon | Form of the Squirrel | name |
| "Goblins with a Mana Cost of 1R, Strength and Toughness 2/2", e.g. Goblin Brigand | Goblin Mime | drawback effect of all those creatures |
| Morphling | Greater Morphling | name and abilities |
| Infernal Spawn of Evil | Infernal Spawn of Infernal Spawn of Evil | Unglued card name and abilities (the "Infernal Spawn of Evil" can be seen on the Card Parodies pic) |
| Meddling Mage | Meddling Kids | name and ability |
| Mons's Goblin Raiders | Mons's Goblin Waiters | name |
| Mother of Runes | Mother of Goons | name and ability |
| Mox Diamond Black Lotus | Mox Lotus | name and ability |
| Necropotence | Necro-Impotence | name and ability |
| The Ultimate Nightmare of Wizards of the Coast® Customer Service | Our Market Research Shows That Players Like Really Long Card Names So We Made This Card to Have the Absolute Longest Card Name Ever Elemental | name |
| Persecute | Persecute Artist | name and ability |
| "Phyrexian black Horrors", e.g. Phyrexian Negator | Phyrexian Librarian | name |
| R&D (Resource and Development) | Gleemax | Gleemax makes fun of R&D, claiming to be controlled by an alien brain-in-a-jar. This is now an mtg insider joke. Wizards of the Coast may be making a Gleemax website, "the home for gamers", but some doubt that it will work. |
| Stone Giant | Pygmy Giant | name and picture* |
| Counterspell | Spell Counter | name and ability |
| Stone-Tongue Basilisk | Stone-Cold Basilisk | name and ability |
| The Fallen | The Fallen Apart | name |
| Uktabi Orangutan Gorilla Titan | Uktabi Kong | Orangutan name, ability, and picture; Gorilla flavor text |
| "Urza's" Cards, e.g. Urza's Glasses | Urza's Hot Tub | name |
| Sneak Attack | When Fluffy Bunnies Attack | name and picture* |
| "Split cards", e.g. Death (Life/Death) | Who (Who/What/When/Where/Why) | mechanic |
| Cyclopean Mummy | Working Stiff | creature type and picture* |
| The Abyss | Zzzyxas's Abyss | name and ability |
| Masticore | Remodel | picture |
[edit] External links
- Official Unhinged Information Product Page — Magic: The Gathering
- "The Un Starts Now", by Mark Rosewater, MTG.com, Monday, November 8, 2004.
