Rands posts about Magic: The Gathering historyさんのイラストまとめ

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)

This weekend marks the 25th Anniversary of the first Limited Pro Tour

In the end, Shawn "Hammer" Regnier & Tom Guevin beat out 177 other competitors to meet in the Final

In their tense 5hr match, Hammer's control bested Tom's aggro deck 3-2 & he became the 2nd-ever PT Champion!

Rewind 14 years into the past & FUTURE SIGHT is officially launching today!

FUT contained futureshifted cards that heralded many elements of Magic's then-future (notably the card-types Tribal & Planeswalker). It also introduced now-evergreen keywords Deathtouch, Reach & Lifelink

Its been 22yrs since Sixth Edition & its rules changes shifted MTG forever

Prior to these changes, effects & abilities resolved in seperate 'batches' instead of on a unified 'stack'

This effect resolution flowchart shows how complicated timing could become in the pre-6ED days↓

The final set in the Theros block, Journey into Nyx, hit shelves 7 years ago today

Memorably its launch also included a quirky marketing gimmick—WotC had made it possible (yet extremely rare) to open an actual "God pack":

a booster containing all 15 God cards from Theros block

The 1st Pro Tour held outside the US was decided 24yrs ago today in Paris.

Its final saw fan-favorite Mark Justice play the contentious Mike Long

Long—using a now-famous Pros Bloom deck—won the match. He even coerced MJ to forfeit a game despite having no way of winning himself