#ARABIAN NIGHTS GAME SERIES#

Cumulative upkeep & Cantrips (cards that draw a new card when played) - Both concepts were more formally introduced in Ice Age, but Arabian Nights made use of these on Cyclone and Jeweled Bird respectively.Coin flips - Arabian Nights was the first set that made use of coin flips to introduce additional randomness to the game.Lands with abilities - Arabian Nights was the first set with Lands that had abilities other than mana abilities.This theme was further explored with the Mongers in Mercadian Masques Opponent activated abilities - Ifh-BГff Efreet has an ability that each player can activate.Stealing opponent's cards - Alpha enabled players to gain control of their opponent's permanents, but Arabian Nights explored this theme further.In his article 'It Happened One Nights', Mark Rosewater detailed amongst others the following innovations or expansions on Alpha mechanics: It is thus the first reprint in Magic outside a base set.Д®ven when separated from its place as Magic's first expansion, Arabian Nights was a groundbreaking set in terms of its impact on the game. On the other hand the Mountain, accidentally not removed from Arabian Nights is the only card of the set that had been printed before. 22 of the 29 cards that have not been reprinted are on the Reserved List, meaning that Wizards of the Coast has decided never to reprint these, for concern of alienating collectors. With 63%, Arabian Nights is second in fraction of cards reprinted in an expansion set only to Antiquities. The most recent card to be reprinted for the first time was Desert in Time Spiral. Of the 78 cards 49 have been reprinted at some time.

#ARABIAN NIGHTS GAME SERIES#

The smaller darker numbers in the casting cost are referred to as series (a) and the lighter and larger numbers are referred to as series (b). When counting the commons with smaller, darker mana symbols as separate cards Arabian Nights is a set of 92 cards. Additionally the Arabian Nights Mountain is C1 and Desert is C11. The remaining 32 uncommons are U2, usually dubbed the rares of the set, although U2 cards are only 33% less common than U3 cards. Of the 51 uncommons in the set 19 are U3, meaning that they appear three times on the uncommon sheet. The 78 Arabian Nights cards come in two rarities, common and uncommon. Some copies of these cards feature a regular sized generic mana symbol, other copies have one that is smaller and darker. Another error, this time in printing, caused two different styles of generic mana symbols to be printed on some cards. Due to this oversight, the Mountain is now the most common Magic card. However, one Mountain basic land card accidentally remained on the print sheet as a common. When the decision was made to have the expansion sets fully playable with the basic set, Wizards of the Coast decided that there was no need to include basic lands in the print run, so they were removed. One of them was the so-called 'Arabian Mountain'. To replace the new card back, a symbolic scimitar was added between the card artwork and card text, making the first expansion symbol every expansion set since has displayed a unique one.ДЄs with preceding sets, interesting errors were revealed when the set was released. Player response against the proposed new back caused Wizards of the Coast to stay with the original backs, allowing cards from various sets to be mixed freely in gameplay. In his article, 'The Making of Arabian Nights', Garfield cites this as his inspiration to 'be more adventurous in creating mechanics and themes'. At that point in Magic's development, the role of expansions was relatively undefined, and Garfield intended for Arabian Nights cards to bear a purple and gold back that would allow players to exclude Arabian Nights from their games. The Ice Age design team, composed of Jim Lin, Chris Page, Dave Pettey, and Skaff Elias, was called upon to become the development team for Arabian Nights as well, but instead of playtesting the set they managed only to submit some comments because their schedule was so tight. Richard Garfield, Magic creator, acted as the sole designer for the set, and developed it in parallel with other teams working on what would become Ice Age and Mirage.

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