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OATH OF THE GATEWATCH—MTGs 69th premier expansion—landed 6yrs ago today!

Memorably, it introduces "Wastes"—a kind of Basic Land that generates *colorless* mana.

A brand new symbol is introduced with them to differentiate this colorless mana from generic mana (mana of ANY color)

follow-up Seton's Scout trivia:

The original painted version dons a saddle.

The creative team digitally removed it before using it on the card because, of course, Centaurs aint nobody's ride. https://t.co/xt5p12jusX

Eventually in LEGENDS (the first expansion to NOT to be designed by either Richard or his playtesters), Plainswalk made its debut on "Righteous Avengers". There was also "Giant Slug" which could electively gain Plainswalk... 4/

The Weatherlight is arguably the most iconic vehicle in Magic's lore.

While the outside of the ship is well-recognized by many MTG players, the ship's interior is less familiar.

These are some concept sketches* from the story planning stages of the "Weatherlight Saga" (c.1997):

The was the first Wurm token to be officially printed by WotC.

However, its art got censored slightly from the original piece—that version was a bit more of an intense depiction of the token's flavor text:

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from Scars of Mirrodin/New Phyrexia's style guide:

An innocent Tanadon is slowly corrupted by the Phyrexians, becoming the Thundering Tanadon we are familiar with

yet another random halloween-themed MTG fact:

if you add up all the official card numbers for each expansion in the original INNISTRAD block—

264 (Innistrad)
158 (Dark Ascension)
244 (Avacyn Restored)

...the total is 666 😈

TIME SPIRAL—a set focused on nostalgia for Magic's earliest years—is turning 15yrs old today!

TSP invoked early MTG with cards that reference its first 13 years though both flavor & mechanics.
It also contained "timeshifted" cards—special reprints that had the initial card frame

11 years ago today the SCARS OF MIRRODIN prerelease introduced Magic players to a different Mirrodin than they had known years earlier

Since the previous visit to the plane, Phyrexians had arrived & with them they brought poison counters back to MTG with the new Infect mechanic!