On paper it sounded like a great idea: an adaptation which used computing power to make the card game’s rules translate into a sort of real-time strategy game experience. Their first computer game adaptation (I can’t recall if it was with Microprose or not) of the collectable card game MtG, was an unmitigated disaster, barely remembered by anyone today except those of us who suffered from buying it. But they’ve spent a long, long time trying to get something right again that they already got right once upon a time long ago at the turn of the century. Not that a multiplayer version of MtG (hereafter) is a waste of time exactly. Calling it a DAR made more sense for the song joke, though.Īpparently there are young and confused people who do not know what Shandalar is, or why those of us who know what it is seem to be constantly whining about Wizards of the Coast (the guys who own Dungeons and Dragons and a bunch of other things, including the card game Magic: The Gathering) keeps wasting time making mere multiplayer versions of Magic: the Gathering instead of remaking Shandalar. See the set identifier on the right for the verion included in The List.It will become quickly apparent that there is no feasible way to do a narrative Shandalar During Action Report. (Note for the list below: The card image that appears may not match the version found on The List.

The plan is for The List to change subtly from set to set, bringing in cards that might make sense with the set we're in, but it will mostly stay intact from set to set, meaning you will all get to learn what cards are in The List. The cards can be pulled from anywhere in Magic's 27-year history. They are legal in whatever formats the cards are already legal in. Being on The List does not make cards Standard-legal. The List has commons, uncommons, rares, and mythic rares which will fall at the proper rate to one another. This is The List.įound in Set Boosters, cards from The List will appear in the final slot of the pack about 25% of the time.

We've chosen a list of 300 interesting cards from Magic's past. What exactly is The List? Well, one of the coolest parts of Magic is its history, so we're pulling a trick from Time Spiral and Mystery Booster.

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