Magic 2010

I don't know if you've read it yet, bot WotC has announced some radical new changes to Core Sets today.

Core Sets have always been the laughing stock of Magic Players everywhere. Essentially they are N00b sets that are just reprints of a whole bunch of crappy cards. No more.


This card tells us multiple things.
1. It is a black bordered set, unlike most Cores of the past.
2. It has new cards. (that is a first.)
3. M10? didn't we already have Tenth Edition? (more on this later)
4. No Future Sight frames. (Strictly speaking, this would have been the first set to be able to get them as Tenth Edition was too soon.)
5. Planeswalkers in the flavor text? That means...



Which means Mythic Rares are in the set! (15 of them, 6 of them new). And yes the rest of the Lorwyn Walkers appear too. which means 4 more mythics in the set that have already seen print will appear too. (Shards Walkers I'm looking at you.)

And classics reappear also.







Yes that is Serra Angel at it's original rarity, uncommon. Does this mean we will see Sengir Vampire drop rarity also? And maybe we will see White Knight after his reappearance in Legions.





Magic 2010 is the first of a yearly coreset release. (they Rotate out with Thier respective Blocks now.) next year there will be Magic 2011, etc.

So far the other info is that there will be a new cycle of Dual lands also. And only 8 of the 16 "Survivor Alpha" cards made it to this set. "Survivor Alpha" cards are cards that have been printed in every Core Set. With Tenth Edition the final 16 were:

Air Elemental
Samite Healer
Grizzly Bears
Goblin King
Nightmare
Scathe Zombies
Drudge Skeletons
Bog Wraith
Giant Growth
Fear
Giant Spider
Howling Mine
Orchish Artillary
Regeneration
Rod of Ruin
Wrath of God

Now my money is on these eight staying:
Air Elemental
Wrath of God
Giant Growth
Nightmare
Goblin King
Giant Spider
Orchish Artillary
Rod of Ruin