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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!

21yrs ago this month, Japanese readers got a short manga series telling Magic's most iconic story—The Brother's War

With a newly-announced standard set for The Brother's War, I hope we see Japan-exclusive variants featuring manga-style Mishra & Urza as a throwback to this series

"pwomise you wont counterspell"

ELDRITCH MOON turns 5 years old today! 🌖🎂🐙

To date it's the only set to feature Meld—the mechanic where 2 double-faced cards flip to become one giant card.

only 6 meld cards exist (3 pairs),
would you want to see more cards with Meld in future sets?

When Rebecca Guay's Secret Lair "Mother of Runes" was revealed last month, I went & revisited her amazing MTG art, especially the work that I was less familiar with (ie Lorwyn era).

Despite the flavor text, I dont remember ever noticing the horse hidden on Sylvan Echos before...

Compleation was achieved 10 years ago today when NEW PHYREXIA officially hit store shelves

Closing out the Scars of Mirrodin block, this expansion gave us Karn's first planeswalker card & a brand-new, unique way to cast spells: Phyrexian Mana (either pay with mana or pay 2 life)