Darksteel Magic The Gathering Cards
Darksteel is an expansion set for the game Magic: The Gathering, the
second in the Mirrodin block of sets that also features Mirrodin and
Fifth Dawn. It was released in February 2004, containing 165 cards.
Darksteel continued the themes established in Mirrodin: Artifact cards,
equipment and the mechanics that debuted. The expansion symbol for the
set is the miniature version of the stylized Shield of Kaldra.
Darksteel featured the powerful single card drawing engine masked
as the infamous equipment Skullclamp. When it was eventually banned
during block constructed a few months after Darksteel's release,
Skullclamp was the first to have been banned in block constructed since
Mercadian Masques' Rishadan Port.
Darksteel was the first "small" expansion to have 165 cards, where
as previous small expansions had 143, (with the exception of Legions
which had 145 as a balance among the five colors.)
The following mechanics first appeared in Darksteel:
- Indestructible - Mechanic that made permanents indestructible. These permanents can't be destroyed by "destroy effects" or lethal damage. This mechanic, like double strike, was introduced in a small set but has become a common mechanic used in later sets as well; generally, small mechanics are used for a single set and then not used again. In the Darksteel card set, all indestructible cards are artifacts. In the story world, most of the indestructible artifacts are constructed of darksteel, a fictional material. This material appears in the cards' artwork as a dark gray metal with yellow motes of energy swirling around it. Indestructible cards in later sets do not conform to this pattern.
- Modular - A keyworded ability of artifact creatures, these creatures would come into play with a set number of counters and, upon the destruction of that creature, could transfer them to another artifact creature.% 26nbsp;
- Charge counters - One of the themes of the block, several
artifacts in Darksteel functioned by accumulating these counters, which
players could then spend for various effects. Most notable among these
was Darksteel Reactor, which can win the game entirely by itself if
left alone.
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